Mexico is much farther south, where the daylight hours are more consistent throughout the year. Virtually no countries around the equator have DST.<p>DST is only useful in the mid-latitudes, which is right where the USA is, so comparing Mexico to USA isn't very fruitful.
California had a ballot referendum for permanent DST back in 2018. It passed with nearly 60% voting in favor. And yet we're still changing clocks twice a year...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7</a>
This is a topic I really just don't understand. I've seen dozens and dozens of articles about it in the last couple of years. The only two possibilities I see are either<p>1) people actually care about this issue, an issue which I've never in my life given one picogram of thought about, it doesn't affect me in the slightest - twice a year we adjust the clocks by an hour, how does this actually bother a significant chunk of people enough to be upset over it?<p>or 2) the articles are some sort of long-running propaganda campaign pushing the idea for some reason, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they'd gain from it. Is there some sort of political/social power to be gained from getting rid of daylight saving time? Maybe just another "us vs them" divisive issue? I just can't understand it.
Yes, but it would only work if it is the actual daylight saving schedule so we're only two hours apart coast to coast. Congress failed to think it through when they tried to do that a couple years ago.