mom2girls Posted April 23, 2007 #1 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Can someone tell me if there is a time difference between Miami and the Grand Caymans? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew sailbum Posted April 23, 2007 #2 Share Posted April 23, 2007 The Cayman Islands do not observe Daylight Savings Time. When the clocks spring forward in Miami, we don't adjust ours. This leads to a time difference for a part of the year. In the summer months when most of the United States observes Daylight Savings Time, Miami is one hour ahead of Cayman. In summer, 9am in Miami = 8am in Cayman. In the winter months when the United States observes Standard Time, 9am in Miami = 9am in Cayman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirage2u Posted April 24, 2007 #3 Share Posted April 24, 2007 so if i have a tour scheduled at 9am cayman time, i have to be there by 8am miami time, right? now does the ship go by miami time or port time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWEngr Posted April 24, 2007 #4 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Actually you have it backwards. If the tour is for 9 am Cayman time, that will be 10 am Miami time. As to whether the ship changes time, probably depends on which ship you are on. I'm going on the Mariner and my understanding is that they do not change time, so they stay on EDT and I will have the hour difference at all three ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirage2u Posted April 24, 2007 #5 Share Posted April 24, 2007 thanks i would of been really early....................or late...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4FRCruising Posted April 24, 2007 #6 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Is the time listed in the itinerary Eastern Time or Island time? I'm guessing it is "Ship's" Time (Eastern). I'm on Carnival Liberty 8/26...GC on 8/29 and time is listed as 7-4......so that would be 6-3 GC Time??? Trying to see if I can do Nativeway's Rum Point Tour. They e-mailed me " It departs the cruise ship pier at 9:30 AM Central Time and completes at 2:45 PM Central Time. Your ship will adjust to local Cayman time, before it arrives in Cayman. So, ship time and local time will be the same, when you arrive." I don't think they are correct about the ship adjusting time and I'm thinking that the timetable they gave me won't work. Your thoughts on this please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew sailbum Posted April 24, 2007 #7 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Tour operators have a pretty good handle on the time thing. I would suppose they are correct in knowing how each ship handles the time issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
florida cruiser girl Posted April 24, 2007 #8 Share Posted April 24, 2007 The time listed in the itinerary by the Carnival is ship time, BUT on the Valor we changed our ship time back an hour! So it was exactly the same as Cayman when we were there. Hope this helps as it was an issue for us too, with all the different zones. But we DID set our clocks back on day 2 and ahead again the day before returning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRIBE1959 Posted April 24, 2007 #9 Share Posted April 24, 2007 We were just on Imagination ship did not switch time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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