People across the United States will be setting their clocks back an hour this weekend as daylight saving time comes to an end. Officially, daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time, Sunday, Nov. 1. Many people will set their clocks back before retiring for the night Saturday, Oct. 31.
Nov. 1 will be a 25-hour day, as the hour between 1 and 2 a.m. will repeat, allowing people an extra hour of sleep that night. Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. local time, Sunday, March 14, 2027. Hawai’i and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act earlier this year, which has those states observing daylight saving time to stay an hour ahead of standard time permanently. The Senate has not yet voted on this version of the bill. In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed a variation of the bill, but the House did not consider voting on it, and it died at the end of the year.
Americans are split on their opinions on the subject. Several want to stay on daylight saving time year-round, while others want to stay on standard time year-round and still others don’t want the twice-yearly changing of the clocks to end.
In 1974, Congress passed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act, which called for the United States to stay on dayight saving time for more than a year, through April 1975. It was repealed in October 1974, due to unfavorable public opinion.
PHOTO: A look at Crisp Hall from the quad shows the sun setting during an autumn afternoon.
