The Navajo Nation recognizes daylight saving time (DST). A major Navajo town with more than 8,000 inhabitants, Tuba City, sits just above Moenkopi north of the intersection of Routes 160 and 264. Likewise the Hopi Nation also has an exclave, Moenkopi, within the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation has an exclave, Jeddito, within the primary Hopi territory. The boundaries of the Hopi Nation are enclosed entirely within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. Thanks goodness for taxpayer supported public-domain images. I went to the National Atlas of the United States, applied a time zone layer and dropped the resulting image into graphics software to affix the proper labels. Actually, more specifically, I made a map. Mapping Itįinally I found a map that demonstrates my point. It shouldn’t be this difficult to find a good time zone map but apparently that’s the case unless one wants coverage of the entire United States. The other online mapping sites provide no help either, and the static maps are entirely hit-or-miss. Mapquest provides time zone boundaries at its higher-level views but those disappear just as I click-down to the proper level of detail. I mentioned the whole Arizona, Navajo, Hopi complexity in my response, but I’d been unable to find a decent map to get the point across. Recently he wondered whether I might have an interest in time zone boundaries. Matthew of the prullmw blog is a regular reader and commentator on the Twelve Mile Circle.
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