SuQue

We'll be in Chile,Peru and Argentina in March. When does Daylight Savings TIme change back to Standard time?

jgg

We will be in Argentina in March as well. According to this website it looks like in Argentina the time will change on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at midnight.
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi...a/Buenos_Aires

Huentetu

The clocks will fall back at midnight between March 14thth and 15th in Chile. Easter Island is in a different time zone and clocks will change there on the same date.

Jeff_Costa_Rica

Peru does not observe Daylight Saving Time.

Guenmai

As I was landing at EZE, in December, the pilot announced the time and I set my watch to it, so I thought I had the correct time. Well, the next day, I was to take a day tour and taxied across town, from Palermo Hollywood to Recoleta, where the tour was to meet. When I got there, I found out that it was actually an hour LATER than what the pilot had said. Scream! I had missed my tour. There were no clocks in the apartment building lobby or the apartment that I was renting. I commented to the lobby clerk that I had never been in a city so void of clocks! Smiles. Happy Travels!

Huentetu

Argentina is unusual in that part of the country observes DST and part does not. The provinces along the Andes are a different time than the rest of the country in summer. So, in summer, it is a different time in Mendoza to Buenos Aires. When they reset the clocks in March, I believe only the provinces not bordering the Andes will change their time thus making it the same time all over the country after mid-March.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=562

Jeff_Costa_Rica

Isn't DST a pretty new development in Argentina? Chile, Paraguay and southern Brazil have done it for many years, and Uruguay just implemented it in the past couple of years.

SuQue

Guenmai, we'll make sure we check the local clocks and not trust the pilot's announcement. What a bummer for you.
Huentetu, is Bariloche,AR on DST? Thanks everyone for your responses.

soulskier

Bariloche is currently 5 hours behind the west coast and 1 hour behind Buenos Aires. Hope that helps.

Jeff_Costa_Rica

I do like what Chile has done with time. If you look at a world map, it's directly south of New York and New England, but it's in the next time zone east, giving it a later sunset than it would have if it were on U.S. Eastern Time. Then in the summer, it observes DST, and especially in the south, you have these VERY late twilights. I love summer evenings there.

Huentetu

Argentina had DST years ago, dropped it and then took it up again a couple of years ago quite suddenly. But after mid-March the whole country will be on the same time.

Rastaguytoday

SueQue,

I'm going to Argentina at a strange time. DST starts in the US on March 8. I get into BsAs on March 13, only to have the country go off of DST on March 15.

It's 10 o'clock do you know what time it is?