Maybe there's a better way to phrase this chronological arrangement.Arizona does not comply with daylight savings time. As Bobby Hill complained, being in Arizona is " like standing on the Sun." The time does not spring forward or fall back because the last thing you want in Arizona is another hour of daylight.The Navajo Nation, however, which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the state, can make its own chronological decisions. It does comply with daylight savings time.The Hopi Nation is an ...
I can see the argument for DST or no DST. I can even sort of see the argument for DST matching the economic powerhouse a few hundred miles away. But there is nothing in planetary physics to justify 3 different time zone usages in such a small area, with major cities being on a different one than all the area around them, or for one quadrant to be (mostly) different from the rest of it.
Moreover, there is only a 2 hour shift of sunrise/sunset from the peak of summer to the depths of winter. That’s barely enough to justify the hassle of DST in my opinion.