Time Zones Panama Canal Cruise 4

We leave Fruit Heights on Thursday October 11, with our watches set on Mountain Daylight Time.

When we get to Vegas in the late afternoon, we set our watches back an hour to Pacific Daylight Time.

When we arrive in Detroit, we set our watches forward 3 hours to Eastern Daylight Time.

Friday October 12 – Set sail from Fort Lauderdale.  All aboard 4:30.  Vessel undocked 4:59 pm

Saturday October 13 – At sea 84oF noon

Sunday October 14 – At sea 84oF noon

Monday October 15 – Oranjestad, Aruba 82oF noon (Aruba is on Atlantic Standard Time, same as Eastern Daylight Time).

Tuesday October 16 – At sea 79oF noon The ship’s clocks will be set back 1 hour the night of Monday/Tuesday.  (Eastern Standard Time)

Wednesday October 17 – Panama Canal Transit

Thursday October 18 – 76oF noon Scenic Cruising Golfo Dulce The ship’s clocks will be set back 1 hour the night of Wednesday/Thursday.  (Central Standard Time or the same as Mountain Daylight Time)

Friday October 19 – Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica 78oF noon

Saturday October 20 – at sea 80oF noon The ship’s clocks will be set forward 1 hour the night of Friday/Saturday.  (Central Daylight Time.)

Sunday October 21 – Huatulco, Mexico 94oF noon

Monday October 22 – At sea 84oF noon

Tuesday October 23 – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 79oF noon

Wednesday October 24 – Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 82oF The ship’s clocks will be set back 1 hour the night of Tuesday/Wednesday (Mountain Daylight Time.)

Thursday October 25 – At sea 70oF noon The ship’s clocks will be set back 1 hour the night of Wednesday/Thursday. (Pacific Standard Time)

Friday October 26 – Arrive San Diego 6:30 am Vegas, St. George and we turned our watches back one hour for the last time. (Mountain Daylight Time)

Saturday 27 – Home

Until tonight, November 3, when we go off Daylight Savings time and turn our watches back one hour. (Mountain Standard Time)

It was so confusing.  DeRay got it all figured out.  Aruba, Panama, and Costa Rica are on Standard Time because they are close to the equator.  Mexico is fairly close to the equator too but they have evidently chosen to tie in with the United States and go on Daylight Savings Time (except they change back to standard time one week before we do.)  

The point is, I will never complain about changing the clocks twice a year again.  We changed our watches eight times in 14 days.  That’s four years of changing from daylight to standard time and back.  
DeLoy Esplin said...It's even worse than that. You changed your clocks by 11 hours in 14 days. It's like changing your clock to DST to ST and back 5.5 year's worth. November 3, 2012 6:37 PM

I was the only one to change my watch; DeRay didn't know how to change his and Ed wouldn't change his.  He likes to calculate.

"Oh my gosh, the flood came!” I interject when I looked out the window when we awoke at 6:10 am on our new time. 

“The whole earth is covered in water.  Its roaring by.  Thank heavens we stuck with Noah.” 

     “Naw,” Ed says, “Naw.  God said he’d never flood the earth again.”