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    When should you change your clock in 2024, 2025?

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    When it comes to daylight saving time, mark your calendars, we’re less than a month away from a setback.

    Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2 a.m. marks the end of Daylight Savings Time (DST) – which lasts from March to November – and the moment when the smart devices around you automatically reset their clocks one hour and many people across the country will take the opportunity to get an extra hour of sleep.

    Every year, states that participate in daylight saving time turn back the clock on the first Sunday in November.

    Don’t forget to change the time on the battery-powered clocks in your home, on kitchen appliances, or on car clocks.

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    When did daylight saving time start? What is daylight saving time for?

    The daylight saving time you know today comes from the Uniform Time Act of 1966, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. However, according to the Congressional Research Service, daylight saving time originally ran from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.

    It wasn’t until 2005 that the shift in daylight saving time from April to October to March to November took place, through the Energy Policy Act, which amended the Uniform Time Act.

    Now the second Sunday in March marks the start of daylight saving time and the first Sunday in November the end of daylight saving time to further the original goal of conserving energy across the country and taking advantage of natural daylight.

    When does daylight saving time start in 2025?

    The next time you change your clock after November 3 will be when daylight saving time starts again in March 2025.

    On Sunday, March 9, you lose an hour of sleep and set your clock forward an hour.

    Which US states do not observe daylight saving time?

    The only two states, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, that do not participate in daylight saving time are Hawaii and most of Arizona, with the exception of the Navajo Nation, which includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

    In addition to Arizona and Hawaii, five U.S. territories also do not participate in daylight saving time:

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

    Will New York continue to participate in DST?

    There is pending legislation aimed at establishing Daylight Saving Time as the year-round standard time throughout the state, which is currently pending.

    At least thirty states have considered or are considering legislation or resolutions regarding daylight saving time. Nineteen states have actually passed legislation or passed resolutions aimed at establishing year-round daylight saving time, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

    The Uniform Time Act allows states to exempt themselves from participating in daylight saving time, but they cannot change the length of daylight saving time or change it independently of time zones, according to the Congressional Research Service.

    Rather, if a state chooses to continue following Daylight Saving Time, it must follow the federally mandated dates.

    A 2023 version of the Sunshine Protection Act, to make daylight saving time permanent across the country, has been introduced in the House and is in committee.

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