Why doesn Arizona use daylight savings time?
Seriously, the official reason is that Arizona is almost in California anyway, and that because we are the furthest south and west of the states in the Mountain Time Zone, we don’t need to save daylight. In the summer when we are on the same time as Pacific Daylight, the sun doesn’t go down here much later than it does in Los Angeles, compared to, for instance, the difference between the sunrise and sunset times from Alabama to Texas, which are the extreme sides of the Central Time Zone. If we had DST, it would still be daylight in some of our areas after 9:00 PM, which, really, should only happen in Alaska. The Navajo Reservation, which has a large area of land in Arizona, spans over four states, so because of that they do go on Daylight Time. This makes it interesting for phone calls and scheduling for the state offices in Phoenix who communicate with state and reservation offices on the Navajo Reservation. Also making things interesting is that the Hopi Reservation, which is surroun
…and the answer is pretty straightforward. Arizona, with the exception of a large Navajo reservation hasn’t observed daylight saving time since 1967. The reason is that with the temperature in this area, they just don’t need another hour of sunlight. It is a matter of energy savings. Interestingly, the same set of data has now appeared for the nation as a whole. The older data favored a net benefit from daylight saving time but the new data show that the additional air conditioning, use of electricity and other concerns actually argue against the use of this act. Add the cost and inconvenience of adapting to the time change and it looks as if daylight saving time may soon disappear — and I, for one, would be happy to see it go. The only problem is that people will need a new reminder for when to change the batteries in their smoke alarm.
