Mexico's Tempest in a Time Change
Mike Bilow
mikebw at colossus.bilow.com
Tue Apr 10 17:21:53 UTC 2001
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Mexico's Tempest in a Time Change
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - If leftist Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador gets his way, the capital could operate in a different
time zone from the rest of the country, out of line even with its own
suburbs.
With the federal government and mayor's office reportedly locking
horns this week in legal maneuvers, many Mexicans fear that if Lopez
Obrador prevails there would be chaos for airlines, television
broadcasts, school schedules and lunch appointments.
Lopez Obrador, who took office late last year, in February decreed
clocks would stay put in the capital on May 5 when the rest of the
country is scheduled to adopt daylight savings time, moving clocks
ahead one hour.
The capital of some 9 million people, is part of a greater urban area
of some 19 million. So the core of the metropolis would be one hour
behind all of its suburbs.
Lopez Obrador's government has filed a constitutional challenge to
daylight savings in general, before the nation's Supreme Court,
arguing that the president does not have power under Mexico's
constitution to impose the time change.
According to local press reports, this week the government of
conservative President Vicente Fox counter-sued, asking the nation's
top court to knock down Lopez Obrador's February decree.
Mexico adopted the time change in 1996, to put the country in tune
with its northern neighbor and biggest trading partner, the United
States. But daylight savings has never been popular here.
Many argue that it is dangerous for children to walk to school in the
dark. And last year in congressional debates, at least one legislator
argued that darkness inhibited morning sex.
The Supreme Court has promised to issue a resolution on the suit and
the counter-suit by May 1, just days before Fox has decreed that the
country will move clocks ahead.
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