Capital Finally Agrees to ‘Spring Forward’
Mexico City joined the rest of the country in switching to daylight saving time Sunday, ending a dispute between the mayor and President Vicente Fox over who has the power to tell time.
Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had decreed that the capital would not “spring forward” with the rest of Mexico, which adopted daylight saving time in 1996.
That immediately turned the clock into a constitutional crisis pitting the leftist mayor against Fox, of the conservative National Action Party. Last month, the Supreme Court stepped in and ordered Mexico City to cooperate.
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