How many US states do not observe Daylight Saving Time?
Daylight saving time (DST) in the United States is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer part of the year, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. All but two states in the USA currently observe DST, the exceptions being Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation, which does observe daylight saving time) and Hawaii.
The overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands also do not observe DST.
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40 Comments
DHL
If it's part of Arizona, shouldn't you include the eastern part of Indiana?
Myrna Cooksey-Watson
I don't think New mexico does it either.
Helga U. Williams
I thought that Congress was supposed to determine as to making this for the whole nation instead of changing time twice a year. Whatever happened?
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earlepg
I knew that Arizona was only on standard time and I guessed that Hawaii didn't have any reason to go on DST.
Lawanta
This question should be date-stamped.
Mike Hibner
Monty Mathias, you probably don't have the hot sun that southern Arizona does. They know what they're doing. If it were up to me, in northern New Mexico, I would be on DST year around. I hate it when the sun goes down at four in the afternoon...
Mike Hibner
Effren Hernandez, they barbeque!!!
Mike Hibner
Bernie McGawley, except that the Navajo Nation is a sovereign nation, thus can do their own thing. Also, the Rez is in the northern half of Arizona, thus doesn't have the scorching hot summer days that Phoenix and Tucson do. The southerners prefer that the sun goes down as quickly as possible so they can barbeque in the evening...
Mike Hibner
Sandra Caulfield, why would they? They are so close to the equator that there days are always the same length...
Sandra Caulfield
Did not know that about Hawaii and I go there every summer.
Caroline Cannon
I think your answer is WRONG.
Vi Winters
Indiana too
Lynne Zeman
I live in Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun". We really don't need anymore daylight durning the warmer time of the year. 110 - 115 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer is plenty.
Peter Schiefer
Janice Lea Vanlandingham, the entire state started to do so in April 2006 after eight counties in western Indiana were shifted from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone.
Effren Hernandez
I just wonder what these states do with all the daylight they save!
Monty Mathias
I wish our state (PA) would do likewise.
Many people I know like DST, as they seem to believe that they actually have more hours of "sunlight" in their day.
I consider it an aberration.