Mexico falls back but won’t spring forward as summer time abolished

Congress votes to scrap daylight savings and just keep standard time, meaning end to changing clocks twice a year

Pedro Lopez, an office worker in the Mexican state of Veracruz, gets up before dawn, and drives in the moonlight an hour and a half to his job. Leaving my house in the dark every single day and driving under the moon is horrible, especially in a landscape as beautiful as Veracruz," he said.

But, for half a year at least, he'll be driving in the sunlight. Mexico's congress voted on Wednesday to abolish summer time, and when Mexicans set their clocks back this weekend, it will be for the last time. In March, they will not be turned forward.