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    When to Turn Back the Clock? When Daylight Savings Time Ends

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    Summer is almost over and that means autumn is about to begin.

    Are you looking forward to the clocks going forward an hour so you can get an extra hour of sleep? Here’s when Daylight Saving Time ends, and answers to other questions you might have about this annual event.

    Here’s what you need to know:

    Yes, California observes Daylight Savings Time.

    Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not observe Daylight Saving Time. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands also do not observe Daylight Saving Time.

    States that participate in Daylight Saving Time turn their clocks back when Daylight Saving Time officially ends on the first Sunday in November each year.

    Daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March. We then set the clock forward one hour.

    On Sunday, November 3, 2024, our clocks will go back one hour at 2:00 AM.

    When daylight saving time ends, we turn our clocks back an hour, which means we gain an hour of sleep. We lose an hour when daylight saving time starts in the spring, when we turn our clocks forward.

    To remember what’s what, some say, “When it comes to Daylight Savings Time, we first move forward one hour and then back again.”

    The purpose of Daylight Saving Time is to provide more daylight hours in a day for a number of reasons, but primarily to save energy. There have also been arguments that more daylight hours are beneficial to public safety and health.

    Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in the US in 1918 during World War I. It was called “war time” at the time. After the war, it was abolished because there was no financial need to maintain it at the time.

    Daylight Saving Time as we know it today began in the US with the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The difference was that it began on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October.

    In 2005, it was moved to the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, as it is now. A Department of Energy study found that the extra four weeks of Daylight Saving Time saved about 0.5 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption per day, which equates to an energy savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours per year..

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    The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, designed to make Daylight Saving Time the new, permanent standard time, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but failed to pass the U.S. House of Representatives.

    There is currently no news on when this will be reviewed and then passed into law. Until then, we will be changing the clocks twice a year.

    If you’re one of those who really plans ahead, Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 9, and ends on November 2, 2025.

    USA TODAY reporter Orlando Mayorquin contributed to this report.

    Katie Wiseman is a trending news reporter at IndyStar. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @itskatiewiseman.

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