On the Navajo reservation in Arizona they DO observe DST unlike the rest of AZ.
Amazing once you go from the reservation and enter Page somehow there's an hour there.
Or does Page go to DST since there are surrounded by the reservation and the Colrado River?
Any commenters know the particulars?

daylight saving time is a mass hallucination that I never remember agreeing to.
I applaud the folks of Ariz. and Hawaii (and parts of Indiana), as well as *all of Asia* who reject it
and the problems it causes -- especially in autumn.

If we enjoy the "longer days" (even though they are exactly the same length with or without
the hour hand moved forward) then we ought to adopt DST year round. We'd then reconnect
with nature on an important level which people in the East have not lost: the natural rhythm of
the seasons--daylight gradually increasing and decreasing throughout the year.

Why not just have it year-round, and end the silly semiannual changes.

Or: another suggestion I heard from a local farmer: Why not split the difference and do it year round - in other words, put the clocks a half an hour ahead in the spring, and leave them like that forever?

You neglected to mention that this is dubya's energy plan, which includes invading and occupying iraq and trying to force that nation to turn over its oil reserves to US oil companies. For shame....for shame.

Give me my hour of sleep back.

I've never liked DST - and here's an article in the Toronto Star (I also saw it elsewhere last night) about Daylight Savings Time for the fraud that it is:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/326611

Instead of saving electricity and money by adding an extra hour of sunlight to evenings most of the year, it cost Indiana homes an extra $8.6 million in electricity bills " mostly from chugging air conditioners " each year. And since 95 per cent of that extra energy was generated by coal-fired power plants, that meant much more atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide was spewed into the air.

Expanded nationally, those results would translate to at least two coal-fired electricity plants pumping power just to feed the daylight savings habit.

The article continues:

"The most persistent lobby on behalf of daylight savings has long been retailers and merchants. If you give people more light when they leave work, they will stop and shop on their way home," says Downing, a writing professor at Tufts University.

"There is a reason we continue to get daylight savings under the rubric of energy conservation because as a policy, it costs individual consumers nothing and asks them to conserve nothing. So it's wildly popular," he says.

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DST is just another trick to make everyone think that the 'leaders' have done some very important work that really helps people.

Out here in Hawaii we don't have to worry about changing our clocks, but we do have to worry about keeping track of the time difference with the rest of you: 2 hours to the west coast and 5 hours to the east coast in the winter; 3 hours to the west and 6 hours to the east in the summer.

In practical terms one thing this means in Hawaii is that all our TV shows start an hour earlier! Yes, most national shows here actually play on west coast time, so last week The Daily Show was on at 9 and 11 pm, and next week it will be on at 8 and 10 pm. Countdown was on at 3 and repeated at 7, next week it will be on at 2 and 6.

A fun fact about how DST affects us out here despite not having it ourselves.

I've been happily calling Sally Field 'Sally Fields' for as long as I can remember too.

You forgot to add the recently proven statistic shown clearly when Indiana switched, that it actually burns more energy. Of course, people go out shopping when there's more daylight. So what stupid excuse will we adhere to now? Saves lives? So would more mass transit.

i'm for more light hours to play.....

obama'08

In the old days, locally-based time made sense to everyone, but with the introduction of railways, it became highly inconvenient and inefficient. Imagine traveling across the country by train. At every stop along the way, you would have to reset your time piece by the local clocks. Travelers sometimes carried a number of watches, or one with six different faces, each labeled with the name of a different city. It was also a nightmare for railway station-masters, who could not deal with train schedules based on local time. The result was chaos for a transcontinental railway.

For Sandford Fleming the solution to this problem was a universal system of time, that would not only work for Halifax and Victoria, but for Paris and New Delhi as well. He devised a world map divided into 24 Time Zones. Within each zone the clocks would indicate the same time, with a one hour difference between adjoining zones.

Fleming's idea was simple, straightforward, and practical, but it was new, and therefore difficult for people to accept. For years it was dismissed by governments and rejected by scientific societies. Fleming was even called a Communist for his "internationalist" notions, and reviled by some who believed that such interference with the nature of time was contrary to the will of God.

Fleming, however, was persistent and very persuasive in promoting his idea. Eventually he won official approval at the International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., and Standard Time went into effect on January 1, 1885. It was a glorious achievement. Without Standard Time, modern life as we know it today would be an impossiblity.

From: http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10182