Why does Arizona not have Daylight Saving Time?

Answer 1

When Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, Arizona tried observing daylight savings for a year and decided to not observe it after much negative reaction. They have never observed daylight savings since.

Think about it: if you were in the desert, the last thing you would want is extra daylight. Because of the hot climate, adding an extra hour of daylight would cause more of an energy crunch with AC working longer and harder. ( This part of the answer is retarded cause you are just changing the time, not magically moving the sun to make the daylight longer. The days are gonna be longer in summertime because the earth has tilted on its axis and we are receiving more light and you are gonna use the same amount of energy anyway. DST is just a way for big businesses to capitalize on the more sunlight during these months, Arizona just realized this was BS and refused to comply)

Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time (MST) year-round. The only exception in Arizona is the Navajo Nation, in northeastern Arizona, which does observe Daylight Saving Time.

Answer 2

Nature has its own laws, including with cows and other animals who hunt, sleep or just move about according to day or night. Who are we to mess with nature, let's live and let live as nature intended, being natural is good. Right on Arizona!!

Answer 3

Because of the light, how the earth is moving and were it is in the world. There r other places like that.

Answer 4

Because they are smart!! :)

Answer 5

relative proximity to the equator, which makes Daylight Saving Time unnecessary. The sun rises and sets around the same time each day in Arizona, making the idea of springing forward and falling back redundant.

Answer 6

Not every state wanted it. Time and date. com points out that in Arizona we have too much sun in summer. Why stick people with another hour of scorching daylight? So state officials decided to leave the clocks alone.

Answer 7

Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time because the state is located in a region with high temperatures, and the extra daylight in the evenings would result in more energy expenditure for air conditioning. Many residents prefer to have consistent time throughout the year for practical and lifestyle reasons.

Answer 8

Consider the effect that changing to Daylight Savings Time has on localities that do make the change.

In March, when the clock is moved forward one hour, everyone must get up one hour earlier to be where they need to be (thus losing an hour's sleep). Of course, this also means that everyone arrives home an hour earlier too. Daylight Savings Time extends the amount of daylight by one hour in the afternoon/evening while reducing daylight in the morning by one hour. Of course, as the days become longer, the loss of daylight in the morning becomes less noticeable, yet the hour of additional daylight in the afternoon is welcome because it allows people to spend time outdoors while the sun is shining and the weather is warm.

In November, the whole process is reversed. The clock is moved forward, everyone gets an additional hour of sleep, the sun rises earlier (according to the clock), and everyone loses the additional hour of sunlight in the afternoon. This tends to counter the loss of daylight in the morning as the days become shorter. People don't have to go out in the cold weather quite as early, and they don't mind the loss of an hour of sunlight in the afternoon since they don't want to be outside in the cold anyway.

Now, given the situations described above, consider the plight of the average Arizonan (especially those living in the hotter parts of the state). In the hot months (March to October), we really don't want sunlight in the afternoon. It is simply too hot to go outside when the sun is shining. We would rather avoid the sun (and the skin cancer that it causes) and go out at night (when the temperature sometimes drops below 100 degrees Fahrenheit). In the cooler months, it doesn't really get as cold as it does in many other parts of the country, so going outside in the dark is less of a problem than it is elsewhere.

Thus, Daylight Savings Time is not as desirable to many people in Arizona as it is to those in other states.(though who knows why! i know i want that extra hour of sleep!)

Answer 9

I am not for sure why the state of Arizona does not change to begin and end daylight savings time but, I do know that every state in the U.S. does not have to change the time is they don't want to.

The only exception in Arizona is the Navajo Nation, in northeastern Arizona, which does observe Daylight Saving Time.

Answer 10

because it's awesome not having daylight savings time!