Mexico Springs Forward Sunday Morning
 PVNN
April 03, 2010
In Mexico, daylight saving time begins at 2:00 am local time on Sunday, April 4, which means most everyone will be turning their clocks ahead one hour. (Some Mexico border communities changed their clocks on March 14 in accordance to the U.S. time change. For more information, click HERE.)
But folks in the Municipality of the Bahía de Banderas, including Sayulita, Lo de Marcos, San Pancho, Bucerías and Mescales, will move their clocks ahead two hours when Daylight time begins... never to regain one of those 'lost' hours forever.
According to an official decree posted on the Mexican Federal Government’s website last month, this is because Bahía de Banderas county will switch from Mountain time to Central Time on the first Sunday in April of this year, when the switch to Daylight Savings Time is made.
This means when the time comes to "spring forward" - or move clocks one hour ahead, local residents will change their clocks 2 hours ahead; this will put the continguous areas of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and the Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, into the same time zone.
According to local officials and information posted on the government’s website, the change was made for economic reasons, due to problems related to missed flights and also with how the time change affects Mexican banks.
On November 7, 2010 areas on daylight saving time fall back to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m. local time.
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