October 31, 2024 – Daylight saving ends this Sunday, November 3rd, and it’s time for the clocks to fall back by 1 hour.
Technically, clocks will roll back at 2:00 am on November 3rd, and for smart devices such as smart appliances and cell phones, this will happen automatically.
Daylight saving time became established law in the U.S. in 1918 with the passage of the Standard Time Act. The time change was implemented as a way to maximize daylight hours to help save on energy consumption during World War I. Over the next several decades, legislators made unsuccessful efforts to repeal daylight saving time nationally, and some individual states and cities reverted to non-daylight saving time hours. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which established a uniform daylight saving time throughout the U.S. Under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, states that observe daylight saving time must follow the federally mandated start and end dates. States may also “exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law,” according to the DOT.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a measure, the Sunshine Protection Act, that would have made daylight saving time permanent across the U.S., however, the legislation was never brought to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Currently, only 2 states do not recognize Daylight saving time. Those are Hawaii and Arizona (except the Navajo Nation.) In addition, most of the US Territories also do not recognize daylight saving time.
Setting the clocks back is also a good time to test smoke alarms and replace the batteries if needed.
