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No “March Forward” in Costa Rica

Rico’s TICO BULL – “March forward” is a term used to remind people about the Daylight Savings Time (DST) start date in the Northern Hemisphere, like the United States, Canada, and Europe, where it starts in March.
But not in Costa Rica, where DST is not observed.
The shifting forth and back in the spring and fall has never really made sense in Costa Rica.
I still remember the one year (though I don’t remember the actual year) that the country announced it would the time shift. The date came and nothing. It was, to the best of my knowlege, ever brought up again.
Doing a Google search on DST, I did learn that the last time Costa Rica did observe it was on January 18, 1992, when at

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