Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Time’s up! Mexico eliminates daylight savings time ending the need to change clocks twice a year

In a marathon session during the early hours of Wednesday, the Plenary Session of the Senate of Mexico definitively eliminated summer time by approving the law that modifies the Law of Time Zones in Mexico, which will be sent to the President.

Summer time was implemented for the first time in Mexico in 1996, with the justification that it would generate economic and energy savings, as well as the reduction of fossil resources to generate electricity.

However, next Sunday, October 30, Mexicans will make the last change to the clock, when at two in the . . .

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