AZDana

Many people don’t know that Arizona is one of two states that don’t “spring ahead” or “fall back”. Back in the early 70s, the federal government tried to pass DST as a mandate intended to save energy. However, Arizona officials, including Governor Jack Williams, campaigned to obtain an exemption for Arizona. Gov. Williams maintained that switching to daylight-saving time would trade an hour of low energy use in the morning for an hour of higher energy use in the evening. The exemption was approved on Jan. 4, 1974, two days before the mandate kicked in.
Since then, there hasn’t been any serious effort to get Arizona on daylight saving time.