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    • The clock goes back an hour, resulting in an extra hour of sleep and brighter mornings.
    • Although the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent passed the Senate in 2022, it has not yet been passed by the House of Representatives.
    • Lawmakers continue to push for the law, with the goal of ending the biennial time change.

    It’s about to all be over.

    No, not Election Day, which takes place later this week. But daylight saving time, the biannual time change that affects millions of Americans.

    At 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, clocks will “fall back” by an hour in most, but not all, states, giving people an extra hour of sleep and allowing for more daylight in the morning.

    The time adjustment affects the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, causing clock changes and contributing to less sleep in the days that follow, and of course, earlier sunsets.

    Here’s what you need to know about the end of daylight saving time.

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    What is daylight saving time?

    Daylight Saving Time is the time between March and November when most Americans set their clocks forward one hour.

    We gain an hour in November (instead of losing an hour in spring) to provide more daylight in winter mornings. When we “leap forward” in March, it is to add more daylight in the evenings. In the Northern Hemisphere, the autumnal equinox is Sunday, September 22, marking the start of the fall season.

    When does daylight saving time end in 2024?

    Daylight Saving Time ends for the year on Sunday, November 3, when we “fall back” and get an extra hour of sleep.

    Next year it starts again on Sunday March 9, 2025.

    What time exactly does daylight saving time end?

    The clocks will go back one hour on Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m. local time.

    When did daylight saving time start in 2024?

    Daylight Savings Time began in 2024 on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time, when our clocks went forward one hour, part of the biennial time change.

    Does every state observe daylight saving time?

    Not all states and U.S. territories participate in daylight saving time.

    Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. Due to the desert climate, Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (with the exception of the Navajo Nation). After most of the US passed the Uniform Time Act, the state concluded that there was no good reason to adjust clocks so that sunset would occur an hour later during the hottest months of the year.

    There are also five other US territories that are not participating:

    • American Samoa
    • Guam
    • Northern Mariana Islands
    • Puerto Rico
    • US Virgin Islands

    The Navajo Nation, located in parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, observes daylight saving time.

    Hawaii is the other state that does not observe daylight saving time. Due to its proximity to the equator, there is not much difference between the hours of daylight throughout the year.

    Is Daylight Saving Time Ending?

    The push to stop changing the clocks came to Congress in recent years, when the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, a bill to make daylight saving time permanent.

    Although the Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate unanimously in 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives did not pass it and President Joe Biden did not sign it.

    A 2023 version of the law also remained dormant in Congress.

    In a press release Monday, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio made another effort to make daylight saving time permanent.

    The senator proposed that the nation “stop putting up with the ridiculous and antiquated practice of switching our clocks back and forth. Let’s finally pass my Sunshine Protection Act and end the need to ‘back off’ for good.” and ‘to leap forward’.”

    Contributing: Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY

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