Time Zone

[NRichard10]

We will be on the Summit sailing the southern Caribbean out of San Juan. We live on the east coast of US and we just turned our clocks back one hour.

 

Am I correct in thinking that San Juan and all of the Islands on this sailing do not change their clocks and therefore they are now 1 hour ahead of eastern standard time? When we arrive in San Juan we should be changing our clocks one hour ahead to be on San Juan time?

 

If San Juan and Islands are on the same time zone, I am also assuming that once we put our clocks one hour ahead, the private tour vendors on the islands will naturally be on ship time for their tours and there is no need to worry about a difference in ship and island time for the tour times?

 

Thanks for your help.

[chrismakris]

San Juan will be one hour ahead of EST and all the ports are on the same time zone. No need to worry about ship time.

 

 

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Edited November 14, 2014 by chrismakris

[kitty9]

San Juan will be one hour ahead of EST and all the ports are on the same time zone. No need to worry about ship time.

 

 

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Uh, yes, you DO have to worry about ship's time. If a captain chooses not to change ship time to local time, and some do the change and some don't, you have to absolutely go by ship time and not by the local time in the port. If you go by island time, and it's different from ship time, you could miss the ship.

[Lsimon]

Uh, yes, you DO have to worry about ship's time. If a captain chooses not to change ship time to local time, and some do the change and some don't, you have to absolutely go by ship time and not by the local time in the port. If you go by island time, and it's different from ship time, you could miss the ship.

 

On this itinerary, which originates in San Juan, there is never a difference between ship time and Island time as both Puerto Rico and the islands the Summit visits are all on Atlantic Standard time all year. So there will be no time changes to adjust to or not and therefore no difference between ship time and local time.

 

Cruises leaving from Florida are a little different since there is an hour's difference between Eastern Standard time and the Island's Atlantic time (although there is no difference when Florida is on Daylight Savings time which next starts March 8, 2015). The biggest chance for differences between ship's time and local time comes on the Western Caribbean cruises which have stops in different time zones and might switch back and forth during the course of a cruise.

Edited November 14, 2014 by Lsimon