Posted on 07/09/2022 4:51:21 PM PDT by algore
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president submitted a bill Tuesday to end daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks twice a year.
Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Mexico should return to “God’s clock,” or standard time, arguing that setting clocks back or forward damages people’s health.
That would mean darkness falling an hour earlier on summer afternoons.
“The recommendable thing is to return to standard time, which is when the solar clock coincides with the people’s clock, the clock of God,” Alcocer argued.
Mexicans set their clocks ahead this year on April 3, and are scheduled to set them back on Oct. 30. The changes, if approved, would presumably apply to next year.
The change would mean central Mexican time, which covers most of the country, potentially could be permanently two hours behind the east coast of the United States; it is now one hour behind for most of the year. The U.S. Senate in March passed a bill to make daylight savings permanent, though the measure has not passed the House of Representatives.
Economists argue that, while the energy savings are minimal, going back to standard time might cause trouble for financial markets in Mexico by putting U.S. east coast markets so far ahead.
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″Permit me to control the Time and Clocks of a nation, and I care not who establishes its laws.″
Personally, I’m lobbying for Year Saving Time, where you lose a year every year. It’s the only logical thing to do.
So if you’re in San Diego and you drive a few miles due south, it’s an hour earlier.
Or: in the summer, Tijuana and Anchorage are on the same time.
If it was God’s clock, the sun would be at it’s highest point in the sky at noon every day as viewed by every individual in the country regardless of how far apart they were.
When at Lake Powell in September my phone clock will often give me Mountain Time - but Page AZ is one hour earlier.
Last year I raced back to the dock to return the boat on time, only to figure out that I’m early. Whew....
We live on the western edge of Mountain Time and right now it is still light at 10pm.
The wife hates this.
I am amazed that there is still a country where the leader can say “God” and not be called a homophobic, racist, misogynistic, gun nut.
How about you give everyone an extra year in their 20’s. Catch up by taking it out in their 90’s.
If you can get me back to 1975 and keep us there, it’s a deal!
Back before America went completely woke and America went completely broke.
I used to live in South Bend, IN and without DST it would get light at 4:30 am when most people preferred to be sleeping.
I call it Real Time as opposed to Government Time.
Nobody really understands it or why we do it, do they?
What about the spirit of 76
I saw the bell of liberty.
(It was cracked even then)
You can do that now by moving east/west. Probably a few places where you can do it north/south.
The reason given in the ‘60s, when the nation established DSL, they said it would save a lot of energy.
I’m in southern Arizona. Right now it’s 5:40 and the temperature here is still over 110. I don’t want to have an extra hour of heat in the summer evenings, and I don’t want to sit around in the mornings until nearly 6:00 until it gets light, because I’m up around 4:00 anyway. Standard time forever, and to hell with the U. S. Senate.
I think I meant DLST not DSL.
Standard time zones are from a conspiracy of Satanists and the railroads. Local time for everyone, even if that means work is a couple minutes ahead of me.
I just like that he acknowledged “God” I think we would all be saved if we all just acknowledged that there is a great power than us, and that we all have a long existence when this current journey ends.
Sounds good to me!
Yes! I remember that from my time at ND.
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