The best memes left by the confusion due to the time change

The automatic change in mobile devices caused confusion, since Daylight Savings Time has already been eliminated. (Special)

In 2022 the Daylight Saving Time in Mexico by decree, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador removed it, 26 years after it was first implemented in Mexico. One of the two main reasons for making the change was low energy savings.

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The last time the time was changed was exactly 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 30, 2022. It was then that the Mexican authorities requested to turn the clock back one hour before going to sleep so that citizens could get used to it.

However, this Sunday, April 2, users on social networks reported the sudden time change on their computers and cell phones. Which caused confusion among the population, since it was assumed that said modification was no longer going to happen.

Memes

“The schedules are crazy”, “The change was applied on some devices and not on another”, “Isn’t it that there would no longer be daylight saving time?”, “What time is it? The cell phone says that 03:26 and if I dial 030 it says that it is 04:26″, were some of the comments that could be read on Twitter.

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As expected, the Mexicans took the automatic changes in cell phones or computers with humor, so they could not miss the memes to express their surprise at the time advance.

This April 2, the clock would have been advanced one hour due to the entry of Daylight Saving Time, however, when it was eliminated, the only explanation is that it is possible that several smart devices still do not have the necessary update and made the change automatically, confusing the users.

Seasonal Schedule

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It should be noted that some municipalities in certain states of the Mexican Republic will retain this change and apply the Seasonal Schedule. According to the National Metrology Center (CENAM), the municipalities near the northern border will make the modification, that is, they will respect it in order not to interfere or affect trade with the United States.

Seasonal schedule memes. (Twitter)

The states that applied the adjustments based on Seasonal Hours from March 12 to the first Sunday of November at 2:00 p.m. were the following:

– Coahuila: Acuña, Allende, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jiménez, Morelos, Nava, Ocampo, Piedras Negras, Villa Union and Zaragoza.

– Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso and Matamoros.

– Nuevo León: Anahuac and Los Aldama.

– Baja California: Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Playa Rosarito and Tecate.

– Chihuahua: Ascension, Juarez, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, Guadalupe, Janos, Manuel Benavides and Praxedis G. Guerrero.

Time change memes. (Twitter)

It is important to remember that the states of Quintana Roo and Sonora never participated in Daylight Saving Time, due to economic reasons, for which they are exempt from the modifications.

It was during the government of former President Ernesto Zedillo, in 1996, that daylight saving time began. The objective of this measure was to generate economic and energy savings, as well as the reduction of fossil resources to generate electricity.

According to statements by experts in the field, since 1996 Daylight Saving Time has contributed to energy savings, but only below 1 percent of the energy consumed annually, and since then warnings have been issued about possible damage to health or alteration in energy cycles. dream.

According to research carried out by the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), adjustments to time zones tend to damage the physical and emotional performance of some citizens. In addition, especially in children, it directly affects sleep.

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