# AZ Time: Daylight Savings Optional? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/az-time-daylight-savings-optional/137841 "2002-11-21T01:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/az-time-daylight-savings-optional/137841/1 "2002-11-21T01:12:58Z")
This may not be unique to AZ, but AZ is the only state I’ve heard something about: Is it true that parts of AZ do not keep Daylight Savings? Or, could it also the opposite (they refuse to set the clock back?) Anyway, how do they keep time and function with the rest of the USA? It’s about time someone shed some light on this! (ha-ha!) 😃 - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/az-time-daylight-savings-optional/137841/2 "2002-11-21T01:31:08Z")
From [It’s all about time](http://www.timechange.com/dls/dls1.html): > [@](#): > > Daylight Saving Time - for the U.S. and its territories - is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/az-time-daylight-savings-optional/137841/3 "2002-11-21T01:42:13Z")
- - - Visual aids: [http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.html](http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.html) - And AR, smaller but more detail: [http://www.time.gov/](http://www.time.gov/) ~