Many phones in Mexico have changed their time and confused the population: “I have to work an hour earlier”

Something very strange happened in Mexico: some cell phone clocks changed the time by themselves and confused much of the population.

“I have to work an hour earlyWho can it be reported to? It’s an abuse that cell phones have changed the time when clearly in almost all of Mexico there would be no time change,” one Twitter user complained.

The clocks of many internet-connected smartphones were advanced by one hour this Sunday, April 2. It came months after the government approved the elimination of daylight saving time and just on the day that the country’s time zone should have been brought forward by one hour.

The reactions

“What time is it in Mexico City? I think my phone just switched to daylight saving time,” one person wrote on Twitter.

“I am arguing with my mother because she says it will be 9 and I have to say it will only be 8 but there shouldn’t be a time change in Mexico anymore. I don’t understand,” added a second.

“I leave home at work thinking I’m late because no one alerted my phone and my alarm went off an hour earlier thanks to #Summertime,” commented another user.

And one responsible and prepared citizen warned: “If you live in Mexico City, your watch just automatically switched to daylight saving time. your clock is wrong. DST no longer applies in 2023 in most of Mexico (including CDMX). You have to adjust it so that there is no confusion”.

The new law

The confusion has to do with the fact that on October 26, 2022, the Senate approved the end of daylight saving time by enactment of the time zone law in the country.

The Law established a standard time for the whole territory in accordance with the agreements made at the International Meridian Conference of 1884, which determined the zero meridian.

The legislation rendered useless a December 2001 law in which daylight saving time was established.

Now, the Law of Zones clarifies that only states and municipalities included in the northern border of the country will have “daylight saving time” and that local congresses, if necessary, can present an initiative before the Congress of the Union to choose their own program, after consulting the population.