Garneau’s

In order to boycott the system that has been an emotional roller coaster of “falling behind” and “springing forward” my wife and I have decided to boycott daylight savings time by moving to Arizona. We are now in the greater Phoenix area where our clocks can remain unchanged throughout the year.

“Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time. This means that in Arizona we never change our clocks like most of the rest of the country does. On the last Sunday in October, when everyone else “falls back” or sets their clock back one hour, we do not. From that last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April, we are one hour ahead of those states on Pacific Time, like California and Nevada; one hour behind states in the Central Time zone, such as Texas and Illinois; and only two hours behind those states on Eastern Time, such as New York and Florida.

The only exception in Arizona is the Navajo Nation, in northeastern Arizona, which does observe Daylight Saving Time.

You might ask, isn’t the changing of the clocks a federal law? The answer is that although Daylight Saving Time was established by federal law in 1986, a state or area may choose not to observe it. Other areas in the U.S. that don’t observe Daylight Saving Time are Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana. In Arizona, we just don’t need another hour of sunlight!

Final tip: It is NOT Daylight SavingS time–there’s no “S” after Saving. It’s Daylight Saving Time, singular. “