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NASCAR Will Be In Two Time Zones This Weekend Because Arizona Ignores Daylight Saving Time
NASCAR Will Be In Two Time Zones This Weekend Because Arizona Ignores Daylight Saving Time-March 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:16

While most of us don’t enjoy daylight saving time or , not practicing it when everyone else does sounds just as bad. Most of Arizona , and that means this weekend’s NASCAR races will happen in more than one time zone—at the same race track.

On a map of the different zones of daylight saving time, almost all of Arizona will be its own color because the state doesn’t want to deal with that “spring forward, fall back” stuff. Good for Arizona, since none of us really like leaving work at 5 p.m. in the winter to have the sun go down 10 minutes after anyway.

But ignoring daylight saving makes its own headaches: Arizona hops time zones a couple of times a year to avoid it, and it’ll make a hop on NASCAR weekend at Phoenix International Raceway this year. That means, according to ESPN’s , that Friday practices and the Saturday Xfinity Series race will happen in Mountain Time locally, while the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race schedule will be on Pacific Time. The clocks won’t change, but the zones will.

All of that’s probably about as normal to people who live in Arizona as daylight saving time is to the rest of us, but people who travel in for the race could be in for a real doozy in trying to figure out when to get to the race track on Sunday.

(As someone who’s been to many NASCAR races in Texas on daylight-saving weekend, it’s impossible to avoid second guessing the clock even when most of the world is changing it. Moving an hour in the middle of the night or switching zones seems like a simple thing to do, but we humans just struggle with it.)

But, hey, more power to Arizona for protesting one of the most annoying ideas humankind has ever come up with. Hopefully whatever time they’re running on will mean the sun isn’t in the middle of the sky during the races this weekend, because the designers of the Phoenix track made an infamous miscalculation in building it that’s : They faced the grandstands right at the sun, creating a huge glare and the “sunburn section.”

Not all of our choices can be as great as the choice to ignore daylight saving time, evidently.

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