Daylight Saving Time: When will the clocks change in 2024?

WASHINGTON – There is just a month left until most clocks in the United States are “set back” by an hour.

On November 3rd, the first Sunday in November, Daylight Saving Time ends for 2024. At 2 a.m. that Sunday, clocks will go back an hour, allowing most people an extra hour of sleep.

The change will result in earlier sunrises and nightfall well before 7 p.m. Only in March 2025 will we set our clocks to “go ahead” again.

Frequent moves in Congress have attempted to make daylight saving time permanent, eliminating the practice of changing our clocks twice a year. However, the bills usually die before they even come close to becoming law.

With little to no progress made on this latest legislation, Americans will continue to “fall back” in 2024 and “leap forward” next year.

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

The practice has been implemented in some form since World War I, when Germany originally introduced it to save electricity and energy by extending daylight hours.

The Standard Time Act of 1918 marked the first implementation of daylight saving time on American clocks. The temporary measure, once nicknamed “wartime,” was in effect from spring to fall and was intended to reduce energy costs during World War I. The law is also responsible for the five time zones that are still in effect today.

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 and was 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. Daylight saving time was last extended by a few weeks in 2005 when former President George Bush changed the law. It is now celebrated from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Despite statewide observance, Arizona and Hawaii do not observe Daylight Saving Time. Under federal law, states are permitted to opt out of daylight saving time and remain on standard time, but are not permitted to remain on daylight saving time.

The U.S. has implemented year-round daylight saving time twice before, once during World War II to save fuel and once in 1974 as a “test run” during an energy crisis.