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October 27, 2007
Daylight Savings Time
We will be setting our clocks back one hour this Sunday morning, returning to Central Standard Time. This is one week before our neighbors north of the border, so we'll be in synch with the Mountain time zone in the United States for the next seven days.
According to user chiapaneco on Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum, in Chiapas, indigenous villages do not observe Daylight Savings time. Therefore, when one is scheduling appointments and such in those areas, one has to clarify which time zone is being used. Apparently, "mountain time" refers to indigenous time.
Posted by crispy at October 27, 2007 02:04 PM
Comments
a time zone by any other name would still sherd as sweet.
[crispy says: BAH HA HA HAAAAAAAA!]
Posted by: Akira at October 29, 2007 05:43 PM
You know, I've heard that some parts of Mexico switch their clocks back and other parts do not. At first I thought, "how silly it is for them to be inconsistent". Then I remembered that Arizona doesn't switch their clocks back either.
Also, how stupid is it that Congress moved the dates for switching the clocks back? I can't tell you how much IT havoc that has wrought...
Nowadays, I'm thinking that Daylight Saving Time is pretty silly in general. I think we should all switch over to Greenwich Mean Time and be done with it.
Posted by: b at October 29, 2007 10:22 PM