Tijuana Now on U.S. Daylight Saving Time

[sonie607]

Probably a good time to bump this to avoid confusion.

 

[crotchcritter]

My testicles weigh .6 Stone, my meat is .05 farthings long, and I shoot 3 1/2 table spoons of sperm.

 

[JannahLee]

Of course American football would still be measured in yards. Of course you can still buy a pint of beer. Of course you can still use old lines like "walk a mile in your shoes". When I was a kid the first time gas went over $1/gallon, I remember the old-school analog gas pumps went to liters. There was a little table pasted to the gas pumps so you could figure you how many gallons you were buying. I was surprised when the price of gas spiked last time that there wasn't more of a call for going metric for gas sales. Politicians and oil companies could say "hey look gas is still under a dollar a liter!" even though you're paying nearly $4/gal.

When I was living in Texas I read a story about how Samsung was suing FedEx for screwing up a delivery of a piece of equipment that was shipped between San Jose CA and Austin TX. As delicate electronics it had to be kept at a constant temperature or it would get ruined. Imagine the surprise of the guy in Austin that came out to sign for the delivery when he say a refrigerated truck. Se, they said the temp needed to be 24 degrees. Since computer components and other scientific stuff has always been in metric. So the equipment was chilled to 24f when it should have been at 24c which is about 74f.

Just as we can easily work out the peso / dollar conversion rate when negotiating with chicas, we can easily figure out that a gallon of gas is about 4 liters. Or that a spinner is about 1.5m and weighs about 45kg. A 36DD is still a 36DD.

 

[Zilog32]

Yes, the language is a serious issue. Can you imagine saying, "Hey, don't criticize me until you walk 1.6 kilometers in my shoes." However, I reiterate, it will benefit our economy and our competitiveness in the global marketplace if we finally bite the bullet and make the change. The rest of the world would be happy to help us. And there are some cultural exceptions around the world. You can still order a pint of ale in many pubs in the U.K. We can keep buying gas by the gallon, for example, if the change is too much for some people.

 

[Pompal 09.]

2.197x10^20 hL (hectoliters)
(source: wolfram alpha)

 

[Em :)]

Oi, let's head down to the Prince of Whales to enjoy a demi-liter and watch Man-U.

Doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[Pompal 09.]

If we tell you, will you start drinking demi-liters of ale instead of pints?

 

[don]

I've been taken hoseforum.xxxe and they are forcing me to watch soccer, and use the metric system. Quick how many hectalitres is the volume of the moon?

 

[Pompal 09.]

OC, are you upset that supergato is hoping for the States to go on the metric system? I would like to second his recommendation. It is hurting us economically to stay with the antiquated United States Standard (nee British System -- the Brits asked us to change the name as it was embarrassing to them). Have you ever worked in an environment that used metric? It is just so much easier and more logical. Luckily, many U.S. companies are adopting the metric standard on their own without the government's blessing. We are not quite 5% of the world's population and we will not be the largest economy forever. (China with 1.3 billion people and India with 1.2 billion people are bound to pass us simply because of the size of their populations.)

What a bizarre topic for a mongering forum.

P.S. No one is going to force you to watch soccer.

 

[???????? Vixen ????????]

What next, you are going to force us to watch soccer?

 

[I FANCY YOU :)]

Good luck with the saving energy Sr. Luken. That hasn't been the case in much of the US. For me in San Diego it means another hour of sunshine early in the morning. But it also means the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon. I was really hoping we'd go back to the rest of the world schedule. Then, again, I'd like to see the US embrace the metric system. I can dream.

But it does make sense for the border towns to synchronize with their American neighbors. Just as Sonora doesn't observe DST at all like their Arizona cousins.

 

[MO $ LE$$ $$TRE$$ MO LOVE]

That is very good news. It was very inconvenient before.
Thanks for the info.

 

[Stuart]

Traditionally, Daylight Saving Time starts the first Sunday in April and ends the last Sunday in October. Mexico follows the tradition dates, whereas the United States has revised the dates so that starting in 2007 Daylight Saving Time begins the second Sunday in March and ends first Sunday in November.

This has caused confusion for many living in the US-Mexico border area. Beginning in 2010 Mexican border cities will follow the United States Daylight Saving Time schedule, as explained in the article cited below.

U.S.-Mexico Border Cities On Same Time In 2010
By Amy Isackson
December 30, 2009​

A new Mexican law means less scheduling snafus this spring for people who cross the border between Tijuana and San Diego. The new law synchronizes daylight savings schedules in U.S. and Mexican border cities in 2010.

Since 2007, different daylight savings time schedules have caused an hour gap between US Mexico border cities for a few weeks every spring and fall.
In March 2007, the US and Canada switched to a new daylight savings schedule to save energy, but Mexico did not.

Gaston Luken, the Tijuana congressman who sponsored the bill to synchronize the clocks, says the benefits are multi-fold, "We'll save energy because we'll take more advaneforum.xxxe of the sun. There are savings in terms of transactional costs along the border, for commerce, for industry, for maquila, for tourism."

Synchronizing clocks will also save tens of thousands of people from choreographing their schedules to compensate for the hour gap.

The measure faced little opposition in Mexico's Congress, but Luken says it highlighted the disconnect between border cities and Capitol lawmakers. He says there was little awareness of the problem in Mexico City.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/dec/30/us-mexico-border-cities-same-time-2010/