What time is it?
 

An important part of planning a vacation is time. I am confused about the time in each area I will be in.

The main places I will be in are Vegas, zion, page, monument valley, Albuquerque, Arizona driving back to Vegas. I understand some places change the clock and others don't - what about Navaho time? I will be out end of sept - early oct. Thanks for the help.

It's currently 6:32am in Nevada, 7:30am in Zion, Page AZ, Monument Valley.

Clocks don't change until November.

Google is your friend here. Try "time in Nevada", etc...

Except Nevada, those are places in the "Mountain Time" zone. The outlier is Arizona which doesn't comply with daylight saving time. So in summer/fall, when the clocks are forward, Arizona is the same time as California while the rest are an hour later. In winter/spring, an hour later.

Nevada is Pacific time, same as California. So, for your purposes in the fall, Nevada and Arizona will be the same time, the rest an hour later.

Well, perhaps this is a case where google is NOT your friend...

Google thinks Page is an hr ahead of the rest of AZ at present...

Navajo Nation DOES follow daylight savings time; so it is the same as New Mexico; always.

The state of Arizona is always on Mountain Standard Time, so like LA in summer, Denver in winter, exception the Navajo Nation which does observe Daylight Savings time. Now if AZ would just go with the rest of the nation , it wouldn't be so confusing. Dark at 7:30 pm in the summer too.

Rumor has it that AZ won't adopt Daylight savings time as it feeds their wannabee status of being just like California - at least half the year.

Residents of Arizona just like it that way so it's isn't likely to change, nothing whatever to do with CA. They like the thought of being contrary and don't like the idea of changing anything they don't have to, including their clocks.

Maybe the wannabees are newcomers from CA and no one pays any attention to them. Can't tell you how many times I heard new arrivals say "you know what this town needs...(fill in the blank)". Came to a place that's different, then work to make it just like the place they left.

"Maybe the wannabees are newcomers from CA and no one pays any attention to them. Can't tell you how many times I heard new arrivals say "you know what this town needs...(fill in the blank)". Came to a place that's different, then work to make it just like the place they left."

In Nantucket, we call them "point rounders". They come around Brant Point on the ferry and start telling us how things should be done. Maybe some of 'Em winter in AZ.

"Maybe some of 'Em winter in AZ."

Maybe. Or maybe they're just everywhere.

<Rumor has it that AZ won't adopt Daylight savings time as it feeds their wannabee status of being just like California - at least half the year.>
Most ridiculous thing ever posted!

"Most ridiculous thing ever posted!"

NewbE, posted by someone apparently from New Mexico who, in my experience, are often ridiculous when comparing the 2 states, with NM seeming always to come out on top. Makes one wonder, doesn't it.

A lot of AZ's reason to skip changing their clocks is due to the heat. Nighttime temperatures can drop by 30 degrees. California wannabes? Don't think so .

NM comes out on top because we are superior. ;-)

Lee Ann

I see your wink, Lee Ann, so I won't get started. Having been related by marriage to an A-list NM politician of some years back, as you can imagine, it might get ugly and I'd best keep quiet. I'll just say, NM does have it's surface beauty.

Oh, goodness, I'm dying to know who! :-D

Lee Ann

"NewbE, posted by someone apparently from New Mexico who, in my experience, are often ridiculous when comparing the 2 states, with NM seeming always to come out on top. Makes one wonder, doesn't it."

I don't even understand what that means.

We here in NM, don't take ourselves all that seriously. Glad I made you all laugh, though your really have to know what the AZ mentality is like. Hard to make that call from the east coast of FL. And for the record, the temps in many areas in AZ do not drop 30 degrees at night, not in Phoenix anyways.

I love it, "the AZ mentality".

Lee Ann, a puzzle for you, he was 1 of only 2 (I believe) NM politicians to serve in all 3 branches of the NM gov't.

Mechem?

Mechem served only in the executive branch of state government. The other 2 were federal.

I was mistaken, one of 4 who served in all 3 branches. Mack Easley, NM house (speaker) & senate, lt. governor, NM supreme court chief justice.