Pending Permanent Daylight Savings Time - Good or Bad For Arizona? (Flagstaff: school, live)

[Hschlick84]

Arizona should NOT be part of PST, we are a mountain state.

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

Arizona should go with the rest of Mountain Daylight Time states like Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, etc. Otherwise, just abolish savings time nationwide and do standard time year-round.

Although abolishing DST would be nice, I don't think it'll ever happen.

Since Arizona is on permanent Mountain Standard Time and we're in the Mountain Time Zone, I don't think most Arizonans would like going with the rest of the Mountain states when and if this takes effect next year, since the majority of Arizonans live in the lower desert elevations in the Phoenix and Tucson areas (below 3,000 feet ASL), and daylight hours in the summer months are long enough anyways, so there's no reason to make them longer.

New Arizona residents probably wouldn't care, but most of us native Arizonans want to see the sun set at the earliest possible time in June, July and August. It probably wouldn't bother you if you lived in the higher elevations to have an extra hour of daylight in both the fall and winter months, and it would be good for us desert dwellers too, but I don't know about the summer months, you won't find too many of us doing yard work when the sun is setting or at dusk, on some days it'll still be above 105 degrees outside after sunset.

[Hschlick84]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Although abolishing DST would be nice, I don't think it'll ever happen.

Since Arizona is on permanent Mountain Standard Time and we're in the Mountain Time Zone, I don't think most Arizonans would like going with the rest of the Mountain states when and if this takes effect next year, since the majority of Arizonans live in the lower desert elevations in the Phoenix and Tucson areas (below 3,000 feet ASL), and daylight hours in the summer months are long enough anyways, so there's no reason to make them longer.

New Arizona residents probably wouldn't care, but most of us native Arizonans want to see the sun set at the earliest possible time in June, July and August. It probably wouldn't bother you if you lived in the higher elevations to have an extra hour of daylight in both the fall and winter months, and it would be good for us desert dwellers too, but I don't know about the summer months, you won't find too many of us doing yard work when the sun is setting or at dusk, on some days it'll still be above 105 degrees outside after sunset.

They could just include southern AZ as part of pacific daylight time, northern AZ will be with MDT.

[jwest09]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

That's not how I read it. We will be like UT (above us to the North).

No, because when UT jumps to daylight savings time in 2023, AZ doesn't, because they are excuded, therefore AZ will be with California time permanently.

[Burning Madolf]

Originally Posted by hikernut

So the country will be protecting sunshine, but at the expense of no longer saving daylight

Public policy is always about sacrifices.

[Ponderosa]

Morning people got the short straw on this.

[Ex New Yorker]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Ooops.. I messed up, I selected the wrong option, I wanted to select the option that allows Arizona to create our own time zone.. Unfortunately CD doesn't allow us to change our selection. Oh well.

Creating a new time zone that's specific to Arizona would probably be the best option, and that would be to stay on our year-long MST, which if this new legislation passed, our time zone would no longer be compliant with the MST, we would be one hour behind the pending new Mountain Standard Time, and we'll be on the same time zone as the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, Pacific Daylight-saving Time.

It makes no difference to me. I'm just happy to be living here. I wasn't going to vote but after reading your comments I voted for Arizona to create its own time zone for you.

[asufan]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

Crap! IMO, then AZ needs to do a single, one-time change to become MST. Because that aligns with other states north of us. Potentially, pride is going to get in their way and they don't want to change. I bet the topic will be discussed. In the end, I doubt they will change it. Considering our current events, who knows if will even matter. 2023 seems like a long time away.

LOL no. We move our clocks back, it will be getting dark before 4:30pm in the middle of Winter. The local junior high kids don't even get off the bus until 4:45. No thanks. We keep our time the same and let others change as they see fit

[Kayela]

AZ needs to do a single, one-time change to become MST

Umm.. I thought AZ already was MST??

[Valley Native]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

Arizona should go with the rest of Mountain Daylight Time states like Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, etc. Otherwise, just abolish savings time nationwide and do standard time year-round.

Politicians should quit passing these stupid bills to "save the sunshine", and just abolish DST all together. DST is unnecessary, outdated, and ridiculous. Are there any benefits for longer daylight hours for Arizona? Absolutely not. If there's one thing this state doesn't need, it's additional sunlight. We get more than enough as it is, and the summer heat & intense sun are the reasons Arizona doesn't observe DST.