Most of Mexico no longer observes daylight saving time (DST; Spanish: horario de verano ("summer schedule")) as it was abolished on Sunday, 30 October 2022.
[3] The Government of Mexico adopted daylight saving time nationwide in 1996 to decrease energy consumption and to facilitate commerce and tourism with the neighboring United States.
[citation needed] Rep. Francisco Saracho Navarro (PRI) proposed a bill in September 2015 to reduce confusion by modifying the aforementioned DST start and end dates, observed by the rest of the country, to match those followed by the border municipalities (above).
[citation needed] In July 2022, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed a bill to eliminate daylight saving time after a survey showed that 71% of the general public supported the idea.
[citation needed] The state of Quintana Roo decided not to observe DST as of 1 February 2015, when it switched time zones from CST to EST.