What time zone is the ship in? (Magic Western Caribbean)

[vinotinto]

I'm assuming the Magic stays on EDT (Port Canaveral's time). Is that correct?

 

[KristiMc]

No - Ship time will change to reflect the time of where you are. They will post a reminder in the Navigator to change your clocks.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Yes they adjust times to the local ports.

 

[anricat]

That's a bummer. Us central time zone people love being on eastern time. It makes second seating dining the perfect dinnertime for us.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

That's a bummer. Us central time zone people love being on eastern time. It makes second seating dining the perfect dinnertime for us.

Normally you adjust to the local time and the sun coming up. You will have breakfast at local time, lunch at local time so dinner will feel local time as well.

 

[jahber]

Normally you adjust to local time. But this past October we remained on ship time (1 hour ahead of Cozumel) when we were in Mexico. It was because of the timing of the daylight saving time switchover. Port Canaveral was 2 hours ahead of Mexico, and on a 5-day cruise there isn't enough time to make the switch and back. But when that happens, they make it very clear.

 

[vinotinto]

OK, I know that I am being dense, but for some reason, I get very confused with time changes. I once showed up 35 minutes prior to an international flight in MAD thinking that I was showing up 1 hour and 35 minutes ahead. Don't want to make the same mistake...

So, Falmouth, Cayman, and Cozumel are all EST. Right now they are on the same time as Port Canaveral, but daylight savings time ends on March 8. So does that mean that after March 8, Port Canaveral will be one hour ahead? And it's up to the captain to decide whether to keep us in PC time or change us to the islands' time?

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

OK, I know that I am being dense, but for some reason, I get very confused with time changes. I once showed up 35 minutes prior to an international flight in MAD thinking that I was showing up 1 hour and 35 minutes ahead. Don't want to make the same mistake...

So, Falmouth, Cayman, and Cozumel are all EST. Right now they are on the same time as Port Canaveral, but daylight savings time ends on March 8. So does that mean that after March 8, Port Canaveral will be one hour ahead? And it's up to the captain to decide whether to keep us in PC time or change us to the islands' time?

They swap you to local island time there when there is a difference, do not worry its posted in the navigator and a note on your bed.

Normally on daylight saving its Spring Forward and Fall Back. PC is one hour ahead.

 

[SillyInventor]

Additionally there will be a clock at the gangway indicating the Ship's time when disembarking. If you feel uncertain, check the time there when leaving the Ship. On your Stateroom TV you can check the Ship's time any moment on the service and info channel. No worries, you will be ok.

 

[erionm]

As of 2/1/2015, the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, Costa Maya and Cozumel switched to the Eastern Time Zone.

 

[vinotinto]

They swap you to local island time there when there is a difference, do not worry its posted in the navigator and a note on your bed.

Normally on daylight saving its Spring Forward and Fall Back. PC is one hour ahead.

Additionally there will be a clock at the gangway indicating the Ship's time when disembarking. If you feel uncertain, check the time there when leaving the Ship. On your Stateroom TV you can check the Ship's time any moment on the service and info channel. No worries, you will be ok.

As of 2/1/2015, the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, Costa Maya and Cozumel switched to the Eastern Time Zone.

Thank you all for helping my anxiety with this. I feel confident we'll be fine!

 

[anricat]

Normally you adjust to the local time and the sun coming up. You will have breakfast at local time, lunch at local time so dinner will feel local time as well.

We didn't last time. We stayed on central time. We normally wake up around 7 AM here in Texas. On the ship we were waking up around 8 AM which made breakfast around 8:30 or so. Then we usually eat lunch around noon, but on the ship that was 1 which allowed us to enjoy more late morning activities off the ship and then lunch aboard. We normally do bedtime for DD around 8:30-9 but instead, she got to stay up late and enjoy all the activities until 9:30-10. So it works out really well for us to stay on central time.

It's basically going to mean getting up earlier than we probably want to on the day we are in GC because we are going to do an excursion, but we can nap in the afternoon. Ahhhh, naps...

 

[bumbershoot]

The most important thing is to pay attention to he Navigators for the sailing you are. And remember that the Navigator you read tonight will be for tomorrow. I haven't gotten messed up and this wasn't on dcl, but I met some very jetlagged British people on Freedom who had changed clocks on the day they got the Compass, instead of the evening the Compass was for.

Anyway, I see no need to worry about time changes onboard. They'll tell you if it happens.