Posted by Daylight Saving Time is a time when it’s easier to tell the time on your TV than it is in the morning, or in the evening when you wake up from your nap. There are many benefits to this, but in some states, it’s a very different situation. In some states, the clocks go forward a whole hour as opposed to 2 hours for many other states. In others, the clocks might fall back an hour.
Every which way you turn; the sun rises and sets with the same day. However, not every part of the world has to experience this. States can take it a step further and adopt different time zones in order to get their day going or to avoid daylight savings. Depending on where you live, daylight savings can make or break your weekends as you have to watch what time you wake up to get your work done. In this article, you will find out what state doesn’t do daylight savings and what time zones they do.
When it comes to sleep, most people see it as a necessary evil. However, for those people who can’t get enough, there is a way to actually become a little bit more productive during the day. There are some people who would like to get home earlier in the evening, but the hassle of getting out of bed each day is too much for them. For those people, there is a solution for an early morning sleep: Daylight Savings Time.
Why is the clock moving forward?
The time change in Mexico came into force in 1996, during the government of Ernesto Zedillo, through a decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
The decree establishes that the time change will be applied from two hours on the first Sunday of April and will end at two hours on the last Sunday of October decade of the year.
Among the reasons for summer time is to save on energy consumption, reduce the emission of pollutants and try to consume less for lighting homes.
What are the states where daylight saving time is not applied?
- sound
- Quintana Roo
In these two states, summer time is not applied for tourism reasons.
Sonora shares hours with Arizona, United States, due to the close commercial relationship they maintain. While Quintana Roo decided to stop changing the schedule since 2015 for tourism reasons.
Also in the 33 municipalities of the northern border strip it does not apply:
- –Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Playa Rosarito and Tecate, in Baja California.
- -Juarez, Ojinaga, Ascension, Coyame del Sotol, Guadalupe, Janos, Manuel Benavides and Praxedis G. Guerrero, in Chihuahua.
- -Acuña, Piedras Negras, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jiménez, Zaragoza, Nava and Ocampo, in Coahuila.
- -Anáhuac and Los Aldama, in Nuevo León.
- -Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros, Camargo, Guerrero, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Río Bravo and Valle Hermoso, in Tamaulipas.
Time change in Mexico: in which states it is not done and why
Summer Time in Mexico began in 1996, a period in which Ernesto Zedillo governed the nation and in order to save electricity by taking advantage of natural light, the Ministry of Energy (SE), approved a decree that was published in the Diario Official of the Federation (DOF) to establish a “seasonal schedule”.
In the decree, 31 border municipalities of Sonora and the state of Quintana Roo were exempt because their time zone is synchronize with that of the United States. In addition, various functions were establish according to the needs of each Mexican region. Sonora since 1998 it was confirm that it can have its own time rules due to its relationship starting with Arizona and in the case of Quintana Roo since 2015 it belongs to the 75° west group, that is, it is one hour ahead of the center of the country.
In which states and municipalities will the clock not move forward?
Summer time does not apply to the entire Aztec country. There are some states and municipalities that will not participate. Since their time uses have been update since March 13. Next we tell you which ones.
- Baja California: Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Playa Rosarito and Tecate
- Chihuahua: Juárez, Ojinaga, Ascension, Coyame del Sotol, Guadalupe, Janos, Manuel Benavides and Práxedis G. Guerrero
- Coahuila: Acuña, Piedras Negras, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jiménez, Zaragoza, Nava and Ocampo
- Nuevo Leon: Anahuac and Los Aldama
- Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros, Camargo, Guerrero, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Río Bravo and Valle Hermoso