When many people in Mexico got up on Sunday, April 2, they were perplexed when they looked at the time on their smartphones.
That’s because mobile devices were updated to reflect daylight saving time, which didn’t apply in Mexico anymore but would’ve typically started this Sunday.
Social media was used by people to figure out what was happening.
Many others remarked, “Did your mobile phones also alter the time to daylight saving time, which is no longer in force in Mexico?The server used by mobile phones and other devices must have adjusted the time automatically in order to fix this issue because it did not get a cancellation update.
In other words, the change was already planned, even before it was decided to stop adjusting the clocks in the spring.
As a result of a senate vote to abolish daylight saving time in July 2022, it is no longer observed in Mexico.
In order to save energy by shifting the clocks closer to the hours of the sun in the spring, daylight saving time was implemented in Mexico in 1996, just like it is in many other northern hemisphere nations.
But last year, president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador drafted a measure.
