Please help me settle an argument!

[traditional_woman]

Does Arizona recognize daylight savings time? I say no!

[chichimama]

No, they don't observe Daylight Saving Time. (no "s" - people always get that wrong)

No More Sunlight in Arizona and Hawaii
Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on "standard time" all year long. And if you've spent any time in the sweltering summer sun in those regions you can understand why residents don't need another hour of sunlight.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html

[merickson]

From Wikipedia
"Most areas of the United States currently observe daylight saving time, with the exceptions being the states of Arizona and Hawaii along with the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world#United_State s

[traditional_woman]

I knew i was right. He must be drunk even though he isn't drinking. He said he saw it on the news. He was pointing saying, ''see, look, AZ''!:wall:

[wayoverthehill]

From Wikipedia
"Most areas of the United States currently observe daylight saving time, with the exceptions being the states of Arizona and Hawaii along with the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world#United_State sIIRC, some parts of Indiana do not observe it either.

[captusa]

From Wikipedia
"Most areas of the United States currently observe daylight saving time, with the exceptions being the states of Arizona and Hawaii along with the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world#United_State s

When I lived in Colorado they did not use daylight saving time.
I recall taking a flight from D.C. at 7:45 P.M and arriving in Denver at 7:15.
Do you know when they changed ?

[Lee Kington]

LIVE.. from Tucson, Arizona.

NO... we do NOT use Daylight Savings time.

[LouC]

IIRC, some parts of Indiana do not observe it either.

That was true until 2006, Orange county was one of those places, but now all counties observe Daylight Saving, but not all of Indiana's counties are in the same time zone.

Law Ends Daylight Saving Confusion

All counties in Indiana will observe the daylight saving change on March 9, 2008. However, this state has a controversial history regarding daylight saving time. Many parts of Indiana did not observe daylight saving time prior to 2006. Some counties, such as Floyd, Clark, and Harrison, observed daylight saving time while other counties did not.

To avoid further confusion, a bill was passed in 2005 to ensure that the entire state would observe daylight saving time from April 2006 onwards, regardless of which time zone the counties followed. However, this law did not stop residents and officials from debating as to whether the state should follow the Central Standard Time (Central Time) or the Eastern Standard Time (Eastern Time). Indiana is currently split into one of the two time zones. The official dividing line between the Eastern and Central time zones has progressively moved west from the Indiana-Ohio border to the Indiana-Illinois border.

LINK (http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/indiana-daylight-saving.html)

[Lego-Man]

LIVE.. from Tucson, Arizona.

NO... we do NOT use Daylight Savings time.

The Navajo Nation does.

[JediMindTrick]

Does Arizona recognize daylight savings time? I say no!

Most of it does not. Some of the Indian reservations in Arizona do.

[Stantz]

The Navajo Nation does.
wow really?
I'm sure that never gets confusing.

[coyote1880]

wow really?
I'm sure that never gets confusing.

It matters little.

Have you never heard of Navajo Time?

By my watch it is .... hmm somewhere near November.

[Lego-Man]

wow really?
I'm sure that never gets confusing.

I looked it up. I didn't know it until yesterday when it mentioned at another board I post at.

[gdoane]

wow really?
I'm sure that never gets confusing.

The fun one is Tuba City, AZ where half the town is on one time zone and the other half of the town is on another time zone during the summer. Usually if I'm heading from Phoenix to Utah I just switch the clock back an hour North of Tuba City in the summertime.

Phoenix, AZ does not observe DST at all.

[natalie addict]

Does Arizona recognize daylight savings time? I say no!

I say yes! If you travel out of Arizona you recognize that the rest of the country uses DST or do you just use ST where ever you go?

[natalie addict]

Does Arizona recognize daylight savings time? I say no!
What's the deal with Arizona anyway?

Last state to be created in the lower 48.
Last state to recognized MLK day.
Last state to holdout on DST in the lower 48.

And just as point of information what is sunrise/set on June 21 (longest day) and Dec 21 (shortest day) in Arizona?

[XB70]

Well, the last time I visited the tiny African Nation of Arizona (1968) they did not participate in Day Light Saving Time...

[Clamp]

Well, the last time I visited the tiny African Nation of Arizona (1968) they did not participate in Day Light Saving Time...

:question:

[gdoane]

I say yes! If you travel out of Arizona you recognize that the rest of the country uses DST or do you just use ST where ever you go?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/10/31/20091031fallback-ON.html

According to the Arizona Republic newspaper it doesn't matter from now until March 13, 2010 because the rest of the country is now back on ST.

It's actually convenient in my line of work because all the California tech companies in Silicon Valley jump forward to my time zone for six months a year and when I call for parts or tech support I don't have to worry a thing about their time zone.

The reason I'd never vote for Arizona going to DST (and I'm an Arizona voter) goes something like this:

This is the Sonoran Desert. In Phoenix last May 2009 we set a record of 14 days in the month exceeding high temperatures over 100° with the hottest day hitting 107°. Our summers here have about 90 days of triple digit temperatures and people needing to get things done outdoors wait until the early evening for the heat to break a little.

When it's that hot outside (but it's a DRY HEAT!) and you offer another hour of sunlight to people in Arizona of course they're going to say not only no, but HELL NO! The nickname for the areas in and around Phoenix is "The Valley Of The Sun" because we've got plenty of Mr. Sun. We really don't need or want more.

[natalie addict]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/10/31/20091031fallback-ON.html

According to the Arizona Republic newspaper it doesn't matter from now until March 13, 2010 because the rest of the country is now back on ST.

It's actually convenient in my line of work because all the California tech companies in Silicon Valley jump forward to my time zone for six months a year and when I call for parts or tech support I don't have to worry a thing about their time zone.

The reason I'd never vote for Arizona going to DST (and I'm an Arizona voter) goes something like this:

This is the Sonoran Desert. In Phoenix last May 2009 we set a record of 14 days in the month exceeding high temperatures over 100° with the hottest day hitting 107°. Our summers here have about 90 days of triple digit temperatures and people needing to get things done outdoors wait until the early evening for the heat to break a little.

When it's that hot outside (but it's a DRY HEAT!) and you offer another hour of sunlight to people in Arizona of course they're going to say not only no, but HELL NO! The nickname for the areas in and around Phoenix is "The Valley Of The Sun" because we've got plenty of Mr. Sun. We really don't need or want more.

Good enought reason for me!

BTW this thing about "dry heat" has really got to go. I've been in LV in summer when it's been 115 in the shade, and I don't care if it's dry, wet or 12 degrees of parchment heat, hot is hot!

[gdoane]

What's the deal with Arizona anyway?

I dunno, I kind of like being part of the Rebel Alliance.

Last state to be created in the lower 48.

There are serious advantages to not being a State. Ask Puerto Rico. All of the national defense, none of the taxes. It's a pretty sweet deal.

Last state to recognized MLK day.

It's still not called MLK day in AZ, it's called Civil Rights Day and it's a meaningless Holiday in Arizona because Arizona's role in slavery and racism was about zero. The only battle of the Civil War fought in Arizona was the Battle of Picacho Peak, and that was a joke. A group of lost Union Soldiers met a group of lost Confederate Soldiers and they proceeded to try and kick each other's butts AFTER the war was already over and done. It was like a Gilligan's Island episode with a lost Japanese sailor still fighting WWII.

We never had racism in AZ so why should we celebrate an end of it? MLK wouldn't have ever found racism in AZ.

Last state to holdout on DST in the lower 48.

For good reason. The justification for DST is to lower energy costs. The main energy cost in Arizona is air conditioning and DST would make air conditioners run an extra hour every day resulting in The Law Of Unintended Consequences and wasting energy, not saving it.

And just as point of information what is sunrise/set on June 21 (longest day) and Dec 21 (shortest day) in Arizona?

Not an easy question to answer because you don't seem to realize how very big Arizona is.

I live in Maricopa County. At 9,600 square miles, this County is bigger than the State of Massachussetts and six other States. The State of Arizona itself is 114,000 square miles, roughly the same size as the nation of Italy. The State is big enough that sunrise and sunset times depends on which city you're talking about.

[traditional_woman]

His cell phone went back an hr, and again 'see, see blah blah'. I just told him to go to wikipedia.

Technology even gets it wrong sometimes.

[BillBrown]

When I lived in Colorado they did not use daylight saving time.
I recall taking a flight from D.C. at 7:45 P.M and arriving in Denver at 7:15.
Do you know when they changed ?

I lived in Denver in 1973 and they used DST.
I am not aware of anytime they haven't.

[wayoverthehill]

That was true until 2006, Orange county was one of those places, but now all counties observe Daylight Saving, but not all of Indiana's counties are in the same time zone.Ah. A sensible move. It's confusing enough with some of the state in one time zone and some in another.

[59Flash]

A lot of people insist that all of FL is in the eastern time zone, it drives me nuts to have to explain that I am in FL and in the central time zone. I guess they don't remember the 2000 election that kept a bunch of people away from the polls here in NW FL. (an election that forever changed my political views to conservative)

[donesprague]

Does Arizona recognize daylight savings time? I say no!

recognize, YES

observe or make the change, NO. At least not in Yuma where we are visiting this month.

[Samm]

LIVE.. from Tucson, Arizona.

NO... we do NOT use Daylight Savings time.

Which means that all summer long you were living in the past. :razz:



... either that or the rest of us were living in the future. :think:

[captusa]

I lived in Denver in 1973 and they used DST.
I am not aware of anytime they haven't.

I left Denver in 1966 and they did not have DST.