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From: russ@hpldola.HP.COM (Russell Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Congress considering changes to Daylight Savings
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 17:52:48 EST
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> Arizona as a whole does not observe DST, but some municipalities and Indian
> tribes do. Makes things pretty complicated, especially with some counties
> observing DST and some towns within them ignoring it.

I lived in Arizona for 5 years and it was very confusing -- to be in the
Mountain time zone in the winter and in Pacific time zone in the summer.
TheReservations are on federal land so they did observe Daylight
time even though the rest of the state did not. 

>                                                       I heard that the reason
> the state sticks to standard time year-round is something to do with minimizing
> smog in Phoenix. Sounds wierd, but who knows...


That's very interesting, I have heard that Colorado is considering DAYLIGHT 
savings time year round to minimize smog in Denver.