Bolivia canceled the move to daylight saving time

Bolivia was going to move to daylight saving time on 1 September 2011. But on 31 August, the day before, the government canceled the change because of opposition from scientists, schools and the public.^[1]

The original plan was for the whole country to move its clocks forward one hour every year for the summer months, from September to March. Bolivia had no recent experience of daylight saving time, which may explain the opposition.

Bolivia has had monthly power cuts throughout 2011, and saving energy was one of the reasons for the planned change.

Update, 26 October 2026: In October 2011 the plan was postponed until 2012,^[2] but Bolivia never introduced daylight saving time: it still keeps UTC-4 all year.^[3] See also: Bolivia is likely to implement daylight saving time (August 2011).