The 2 states that don’t do daylight saving, how they got rid of time changes for good

U.S. (CBS NEWS)– As 2024’s daylight saving time starts, most of the U.S. will change the time on clocks — but there are two states and several territories that do not observe daylight saving time.

Come Sunday, people across the country will move clocks forward an hour and lose an hour of sleep. Daylight saving time ends, with clocks moving back an hour, on Nov. 3. The twice annual clock change isn’t observed everywhere in the U.S.

According to the Department of Transportation, which oversees the nation’s time zones, there are two states and five U.S. territories that do not observe daylight saving time. Those are Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Indiana only adopted daylight saving time beginning in 2006.

Why doesn’t every state have Daylight Saving Time?

Daylight saving time was enacted as a legal requirement by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Under the act, states can exempt themselves from daylight saving time. They do not require permission from the Department of Transportation to opt out from daylight saving time. While states can opt out of observing daylight saving time, they cannot choose to be on permanent daylight saving time.

States also cannot independently change time zones or the length of daylight saving time, which is determined by the federal government.

The states and territories that have chosen to opt out of daylight saving have done so for a variety of reasons.

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