[HCDX] DST reigns in Central America

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** HONDURAS. Honduras to adopt summer time 

Possibly a chance for DXers here.

The government of Honduras approved a decree by which the country?s official
time will be moved forward by 60 minutes, that is, implementing a summer time
or daylight time regime, as in other countries.

This means the day here now begins an hour early. The local time is then UTC?5
and not UTC minus six anymore, since midnight of Saturday May the 6th to Sunday
May the 7th, 2006. At 0000 local time we moved our watches forward one hour.
The government said "idefinitely", but I would bet this schedule will be on at
least until September 30th.

Also Guatemala and Nicaragua have adopted this measure. So "keep an ear out"
for Central American stations (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) now to begin
broadcasting one hour early, possibly increasing your chance of getting them in
the local morning hours (from 10 ? 11 UTC) while we are entering the grey line.

Best 73s (Elmer D. Escoto, Controller, Liberty de Honduras, S.A., Choloma,
Cortés, HONDURAS, May 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

We already reported that Guatemala went on UT -5 April 30. Rechecking
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2006a.html
we see indeed that Nicaragua --- and El Salvador are doing it too! ---

30 Apr 2006 - 06:00 DST starts: 00:00 -> 01:00 (Guatemala) 
30 Apr 2006 - 08:00 DST starts: 02:00 -> 03:00 (Nicaragua) 
 7 May 2006 - 06:00 DST starts: 00:00 -> 01:00 (Honduras) 
21 May 2006 - 06:00 DST starts: 00:00 -> 01:00 (El Salvador)

Apparently not Costa Rica, Belize, still UT -6; and Panamá is already UT -5
yearound (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


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