âIâm always baffled when my bank asks me my motherâs maiden name. How presumptuous to assume she married or changed her name.â (@WilkinsonSamuel) Other people questioned the concept of changing oneâs name on marriage at all as outdated.
â¢ Daylight saving was ostensibly started to save energy, but it turned out people enjoyed having an extra hour of daylight after work. But not in Arizona, where sunlight only extends the heat-related misery. â¢ The Navajo Reservation observes daylight saving time, the Hopi Reservation does not. The Navajo Reservation surrounds the Hopi Reservation, so if on Monday you drive from Flagstaff to Gallup through Tuba City and Ganado, you'll change time on four occasions.
LIANE HANSEN, host: Americans set their clocks forward last night, except for two states which don't observe Daylight Saving Time. Why one of them, Arizona, doesn't is a mystery to NPR's Ted Robbins, who's based in Tucson. TED ROBBINS: It's no mystery how Arizona avoided Daylight Saving Time or why. Back in 1966, Congress adopted the Uniform Time Act, which established, well, uniform daylight saving across the country. In April, 1967, Arizona went on Daylight Saving Time with the rest of the Mountain Time zone.