Does the DR use daylight savings Time

It has much more to do with television and sleep, the World's largest free market economy and the DR's largest trading partner adjust their clocks, effectively causing the DR to lose 10 hours of "business" time per week.

What about the average Dominican who has to go home in the dark? The oposition last year to the change of time was overwhelming. Most of the oposition came from the industrial leaders. The benifits outweighed the advantages.

October is when the USA comes OFF Daylight Saving Time, returning to Standard Time. The DR cannot go OFF it when they were never ON it. The DR did not set their clocks forward in April.

That's why setting the clocks back failed last year in the DR. It got dark too early. When the DR president realized the mistake (they were trying to go OFF DST when they were never on it), they backed out of the time change.

Now, if the DR wants to change to Eastern time zone, that's another issue.