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Wolfram’s Precision Eclipse website gives the wrong time for the eclipse at my location (23.7188, -105.6706).

It says, “Total Eclipse begins at 1:09:31 PM CST”: https://precisioneclipse.com/Results/46/b7/46b7ed589f764aec....

In fact, C2 will be at 18:09 UT, which is 12:09 CST (-0600): https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEgmapx/2001-2100/SE2024Apr08T...

Can anyone confirm the correct time? I wonder if precisioneclipse.com isn't considering that Mexico abolished daylight savings since Oct 2022.

The US Naval Observatory has an online calculator which is accurate and time zone agnostic:

https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/SolarEclipses

That's a good one, thanks. It gives me `18:09 UT`, which is `12:09 CST`.

The Precision Eclipse calculator does seem to provide correct results in the US (e.g., 1:40 PM for Dallas TX). So, it must be a Mexico timezone calculation error.

That’s almost certainly it - I don’t know they abolished it entirely; it used to be offset a few weeks.

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