In fact, he said, it helps the Navajo Nation. Jack Jackson, D-Window Rock, said the tricky time shifts can lead to confusion, but he doesn’t think it causes any real problems. “It is kind of a peculiar situation,” Manus said. But it’ll be kind of weird losing and gaining that hour.”Īrizona’s unusual rules and geography mean someone could drive through three areas and go through two time changes while never leaving the state. “I’ll be getting up and leaving a little bit earlier, but at the same time, the time difference will compensate for that. “Navajo Nation will be an hour ahead and Hopi will not,” said Manus, the managing editor of the Hopi Tutuveni newspaper. It creates for some tricky timing situations in the Navajo Nation, which is spread out over several states, and the Hopi Reservation, which is surrounded by the Navajo Nation. Other states have dropped out and gotten back in. Arizona decided opt out of the time change a year later to avoid extending the day in the face of the state’s extreme summer temperatures. Hawaii is the only other state that does not observe the change.ĭaylight saving time was adopted nationally in 1967 when every state but Hawaii fell under the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Sunday, the Hopi and the rest of Arizona will stay on the same schedule. While the Navajo and the rest of the nation will be turning their clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. “I’ll be kind of fast-forwarding and not even knowing,” said Manus, 37, of his upcoming time travel. Both are in the state of Arizona, which doesn’t.
That’s because Manus works on the Hopi Reservation, which does not observe daylight saving time, but he lives in the Navajo Nation, which does. but I’ll be getting in and it’ll be 8 o’clock here,” he said. Source: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Recordsįor Mihio Manus, getting to work Monday morning could feel like a bit of a “time warp.”Įven though the commute from his home in Leupp to his job in Kykotsmovi takes an hour, Manus will leave at “8 o’clock. Within Arizona, however, the Navajo Nation does. Today: Arizona and Hawaii, along with Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Marianas and the U.S.
#Az time zone trial#
1974: Arizona, with Idaho and Oregon, is exempted from a federal trial of year-round DST.1968: Arizona opts out of future participation in DST.April-October 1967: Arizona joins the rest of the nation in DST under the Uniform Time Act of 1966.October 1944: Arizona returns to Mountain Standard Time.April 1944: Arizona returns to War Time.January 1944: Arizona goes off War Time, though some Western communities remain and some interstate commerce continues to observe it.February 1942: Nation moves to "War Time," Arizona complies, again in two time zones.
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