Why stick people with another hour of scorching daylight? So state officials decided to leave the clocks alone. But people in part of Arizona do change their clocks. The Navajo Nation — which extends from Arizona into New Mexico and Utah — observes daylight saving time so that everyone who lives on the reservation is on the same schedule. Hawaii is the other state that doesn't observe daylight saving time. Support local journalism like this story by subscribing today.
Facebook Twitter Email. News Arizona News. Actions Facebook Tweet Email. By: Chris Kline. Is the rest of the country ever going to follow Arizona's lead? Why doesn't Arizona change? It has a lot to do with the weather. According to the U. Government, that leads to energy and fuel savings.
For us, our clocks will remain the same. Feeling superior to most of the country is pretty much our favorite pastime from November through March because of the weather, but this daylight saving thing is something we can actually take credit for not having to deal with.
For Arizona it started in , shortly after the U. Some wise Arizonans figured out there was no good reason to adjust our clocks to make sunset occur an hour later during the hottest months of the year. Daylight saving time: It affects Arizonans even though we don't observe it. Here's how. When you live in the desert, daylight is way overrated. In summer, anyway. Summer brings the kind of daylight surplus that results in plummeting demand. So no, we don't want to save it. If we could, we'd ship it to the Southern Hemisphere.
Roosevelt on Feb. On Jan. Federal offices and departments were exempt from the law. On Oct. Timeanddate notes that DST is "largely unncessary" due to Arizona's hot climate and that the argument against extending the daylight hours is that people prefer to do their activities in cooler evening temperatures.
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