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Why Arizona skips out on Daylight Saving Time: now AZ matches up with Mountain, not Pacific

Why Arizona skips out on Daylight Saving Time: now AZ matches up with Mountain, not Pacific

Arizona skips daylight saving time as its western time zone location already has ample summer daylight hours that would be unnecessarily long with DST.

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Nov 05, 2023
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Why Arizona skips out on Daylight Saving Time: now AZ matches up with Mountain, not Pacific
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  • Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, unlike most other states.

  • Being located on the western edge of its time zone, Arizona receives ample daylight hours already.

  • An extra hour of evening daylight would shift sunrise times impractically early in Arizona, which residents have opposed.

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