Daylight Saving 2022: When Will AZ Deal With Others' Spring Ahead

ARIZONA — Even though Arizonans are some of the only people in the U.S. who won't be losing an hour of sleep because of daylight saving time, many of us will still have to deal with the rest of the country's spring forward.

Arizonans who work remotely for businesses based in different time zones, those with family and friends in other parts of the country and those who travel regularly to other states should take note. Those who regularly travel to the Navajo Nation in Northeast Arizona should also be aware of the change, since the nation is the only part of Arizona that observes daylight saving time.

This year, daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13. That means that although the time stays the same for the vast majority of Arizonans, the state will be in line with Pacific Time for the next six months, instead of Mountain Time.

For those who don't know, daylight saving time is the practice of setting clocks forward one hour from standard time in the spring, and back again in the fall, to make better use of natural daylight.

Out of all 50 states, Hawaii and Arizona are the only ones that don't observe the practice.

The Arizona Legislature rejected daylight saving time in 1968, after the state observed it in 1967 for the first time since WWII, according to the Pima County Library.

Arizonans were not fans of springing forward as it meant summer temperatures were hotter later into the evening, making nighttime outdoor summer activities less desirable, or possibly miserable depending on the day. Arizonans agreed en masse at the time that they did not want another hour of daytime sunlight.

And Arizonans are onto something, because daylight saving time is not a popular practice across the country. Americans by a 63 percent to 16 percent margin favor ditching daylight saving time altogether, according to a recent Economic/YouGov poll.
The reasons the United States observes daylight saving are arguably absurd — as outlined in this video.
Patch writers Adam Nichols and Matt Troutman contributed to this report.