Lee Special - What Time Is Love, Arizona?

Ensuring we have an accurate view of the current time is important to us, as we need to plan our itinerary (such as shopping and checking in) pretty closely. When traveling between two of the four main US timezones, this can be challenging, but Arizona is a whole new ballgame.

For the uninitiated, the story goes like this:

• Arizona is in the Mountain timezone, 7 hours behind GMT
  
• the state doesn't observe daylight savings time, so it is the same time all year round and in summer it is the same time as it is in the Pacific timezone to the west
  
• the exception to this is in the Navajo Nation reservation in the north east of the state, which does observe daylight savings
  
• the further exception is in the Hopi reservation, which lies completely inside Navajo Nation, and which doesn't observe daylight savings

Confused? We were!

Apparently the decision for Arizona to not observe daylight savings, essentially opting out of the 1966 Uniform Time Act, was largely due to the costs associated with keeping people cool during the extra hour of daylight in this super-hot state.