Arizona decided in 1968 that it didn't need to save any daylight

It's that time of year when Arizonans get to be smug about not losing an hour to daylight saving time.

The big picture: On Sunday, most of the U.S. switched to daylight saving time, springing forward their clocks by an hour.

• But Arizona is an anomaly when it comes to changing — or in our case, not — our clocks.
• Unlike the rest of the state, the Navajo Nation, which is split between Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, recognizes daylight saving time.
• Hawaii is the only other state that doesn't recognize daylight saving time.

Flashback: Arizona wasn't always an outlier on daylight savings.

• Arizonans joined the rest of the country in changing their clocks with the advent of daylight saving time in 1918. Congress repealed the wartime law a year later.
• President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 imposed DST nationwide as a wartime measure, and the policy ended in 1945.
• Arizona again implemented DST in 1967 after Congress re-established it through the Uniform Time Act.

Zoom in: More daylight means more energy consumption and more sunlight in our notorious hot desert summers, so Arizona's most recent experiment with daylight saving time lasted only a year.

• The Legislature abolished it in March 1968. Lawmakers got the bill on Gov. Jack Williams' desk about a month before daylight saving went into effect.

• Senate Majority Leader Chet Goldberg resisted the change and wanted the issue referred to the voters, but he eventually relented, according to contemporary news coverage.

Yes, but: Daylight saving time still affects us, even if our clocks never change.

• If you communicate regularly with people in other states, keep the time change in mind.
• Events, TV shows and other things scheduled outside Arizona remain at the same time there, but the time can be different here.
• So remember, we're now on the same time as California instead of an hour ahead, and we're three hours behind the East Coast instead of two.