As the days become darker for longer (and earlier) and the temperatures drop, PennLive has begun its annual daylight saving time coverage.
However, there are actually a few states in the United States where clocks won’t “fall back” for the biannual event.
Tododisca US — which focus on “disability, dependency, elderly, health, economy and welfare news” and is “made up of a group of people with different abilities” — published a report recently covering all the states that won’t change their clocks during daylight saving time’s end and beginning, meaning they’ll stay on the same time throughout the year.
Those states are Arizona — with the exception of the Navajo Nation — as well as Hawaii. The. Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — all of which are U.S. territories — also forgo the practice.
As for why a region would get rid of changing the clocks twice a year, USA Today explains that, specifically for Arizona and Hawaii, their proximity to the equator — and, by default, the amount of sunshine they get in comparison to other areas — is more than enough to keep daylight saving time permanent year-round.
A PennLive 2022 report covering a motion to do the same in Pennsylvania adds how nixing the act of putting clocks forward and backward would, according to various officials, prove beneficial to public health: The American Medical Association states how a year-round standard time best aligns with people’s natural circadian, biological sleep clock, among other things.
Plus, the same PennLive report stated how phasing out the practice would potentially cut energy consumption. It’s also just simply, in the words of Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, “outdated and unnecessary.”
Nevertheless, Pennsylvania will still in setting clocks back an hour when daylight saving time 2024 ends in November.
