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The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion

TUBA CITY, Ariz. — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. I just don’t want to see how much we have to adjust,” Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only area in Arizona that follows daylight saving time. Most of the essentials — the post office, the grocery store, Tuba City’s only hospital — are on the other side of the highway, where everything will be on daylight saving time. A school bus crosses over U.S. 160 from the Navajo Nation, left, onto the Hopi reservation, right, Monday, March 4, 2024, in Tuba City, Ariz. Reva Hoover, manager of Bashas' supermarket, demonstrates the time clock for employees that will change for with daylight saving time, Monday, March 4, 2024, in Tuba City, Ariz. “Once we start looking at people’s clocks, we just kind of think ‘OK, it’s 7 o’clock but it’s really 8 o’clock at our house in the evening,’” Blackhair said, adding that the family doesn’t go onto the Hopi side on school nights during daylight saving. “It’s a lot easier to just stay home.” Arizona lawmakers passed legislation in 1968 cementing standard time after the federal government attempted to make daylight saving time the norm nationwide.

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