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    When should you change your clocks in New York?

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    The end of daylight saving time, when the clocks go back one hour, will occur Sunday November 3. Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. that day, the official time when all our clocks must be reset to standard time. That’s when local time immediately becomes 1 a.m., allowing for more daylight each morning.

    The biennial time change can cause confusion and disruptions in schedules for children, adults and pets.

    Here are some facts about daylight saving time:

    Single term

    It’s ‘summer time’ and not ‘savings’ or ‘savings’. It is not plural, no matter how people around you pronounce the sentence.

    When exactly is it?

    Since 2007, daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. Previously it started on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October.

    Never about farming

    Daylight saving time was not introduced to help American farmers. According to timeanddate.com, daylight saving time was first used in 1908 by a few hundred Canadians in Thunder Bay, Ontario. But Germany popularized daylight saving time after moving its clocks forward for the first time on April 30, 1916, to save coal during World War I.

    Daylight saving time became a national standard in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue conserving energy. The idea was that if it is light for longer, you need less time to use the lighting in your home.

    Do all states observe daylight saving time?

    Currently, Hawaii and Arizona are the only two U.S. states that do not observe daylight saving time. This includes the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marina Islands.

    Who is in charge of time?

    The US Department of Transportation is responsible for daylight saving time and all time zones in the US. “Time zone oversight was assigned to DOT because time standards are important for many modes of transportation,” according to the DOT website.

    When did daylight saving time start in 2024?

    Summer time has started this year Sunday March 10 at 2 a.m., when our clocks went forward an hour, part of the biannual time change that affects most, but not all, Americans.

    When is the shortest day of the year 2024?

    The shortest day of the year is the first day of winter or winter solstice, which falls in 2024 Saturday December 21.

    Is daylight saving time finally 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. However, it did not pass the U.S. House of Representatives and was not signed into law by President Joe Biden, so the biennial ritual of changing the clocks remains.

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

    Which states want permanent daylight saving time?

    At least 29 states have introduced legislation supporting year-round daylight saving time since 2022, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Seven states – Alabama, Arkansas, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and Florida – have already passed legislation to permanently observe daylight saving time. However, these states still need congressional approval to make the change.

    What about the rest of the planet?

    Daylight Saving Time is now used in more than 70 countries around the world, affecting more than a billion people every year. The start and end dates vary from country to country.

    The sunrise will become later every day, and the sunset will become earlier and earlier as winter approaches, and there are fewer hours of daylight in general; the tilt of the earth means that the northern hemisphere points away from the sun.

    Telephones and smoke detectors

    Most phones and computers automatically adjust to the time change, although the clock must be reset manually. It is also a good time to replace the batteries in your smoke detector.

    Next year?

    Unless it is eliminated, daylight saving time will begin again Sunday March 9, 2025 and is expected to end on Sunday November 2, 2025.

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