While most of the United States will be “springing forward” this weekend, we will not be adjusting our clocks! Did you know Hawaii does not participate in Daylight Savings Time (DST)? Hawaii opted out of the Uniform Time Act’s provisions in 1967 so we have never observed DST. Daylight Savings Time is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer part of the year, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.

Since we are much further south than the rest of the states and closer to the equator there is not as much variance between total hours of daylight throughout the year. Other US locations that do not have DST are:

• Arizona (most of the state)
• American Samoa
• Guam
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Puerto Rico
• United States Virgin Islands

“Spring Forward” happens on the second Sunday in March and “Fall Back” takes place on the first Sunday in November. Daylight saving time lasts for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65% of the entire year. So - take note that starting this Sunday, March 12th until Nov 5^th Hawaii will be a three-hour difference from the west coast (instead of two) and six hours from the east coast (instead of five).