Summer time: When will the clocks change in 2024?

WASHINGTON – Daylight saving time for 2024 ends on November 3, the first Sunday in November.

On November 3rd, the clocks will go back an hour at 2 a.m., giving most people an extra hour of sleep. The change also means earlier sunrises and night falls well before 7 p.m. We will not change our clocks back to the beginning of spring until March 2025.

There have been several attempts in Congress to permanently implement daylight saving time to eliminate the need to change the clocks twice a year. However, the bills are usually rejected before they even come close to becoming law.

With little to no progress on this latest legislation, Americans will continue to turn back the clocks in the fall in 2024 and move forward the clocks in the spring next year.

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Daylight saving time ends in 2024 on Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m.

This practice has been implemented in one form or another since World War I. It was introduced in Germany at that time to save electricity and energy by extending the daylight hours.

The Standard Time Act of 1918 first introduced daylight saving time for American clocks. Once nicknamed “war time,” this temporary measure lasted from spring to fall and was designed to reduce energy costs during World War I. The law is also responsible for the five time zones that still apply today.

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 and given regulatory authority over time zones and daylight saving time. To correct confusing and changing time zones, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 sought a nationwide standard for daylight saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.

Since then, there have been few changes. Most recently, DST was extended by a few weeks in 2005, when then-President George Bush changed the law. It now applies from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Despite the nationwide time change, Arizona and Hawaii do not observe daylight saving time. Under federal law, states are allowed to cancel daylight saving time and maintain standard time, but not daylight saving time.

The United States has already introduced year-round daylight saving time twice: once during World War II to save fuel, and once in 1974 as a “trial run” during an energy crisis.