When do the clocks change? Do people gain an hour or lose an hour when DST ends? And is Daylight Saving Time ending permanently?
These all are good questions. Readers can find these answers and more below when we take a closer look at falling back for Daylight Saving Time.
Participating states turn their clocks back in the fall when Daylight Saving Time ends on the first Sunday of November each year. In the spring, clocks are turned forward an hour on the second Sundy in March.
Daylight saving time will begin again for 2024 in March, when we set our clocks forward and lose an extra hour of sleep.
The time adjustment affects the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, prompting clock changes, contributing to less sleep in the days following and, of course, earlier sunsets.
Those disruptions may have contributed to public sentiment souring on the time change in recent years, but legislative moves to do away with daylight saving time have stalled in Congress.
Arizona's choice is due to its warm climate and extended daylight hours throughout the year.
The state's residents prefer to maintain a consistent time schedule without the need to adjust their clocks.
However, within Arizona, the Navajo Nation does observe Daylight Saving Time.
Similarly, Hawaii's location near the equator results in minimal variation in daylight hours, making DST unnecessary.
The US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, America Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the US Virgin Islands also do not observe Daylight Saving Time.
With the fallback to standard time, the sunrise in Denver goes from just after 7:30 a.m. on Saturday to 6:30 a.m. on Sunday.
This is, of course, paired with the earlier sunset later in the day. Saturday will mark the last sunset of the year after 5 p.m. in the Front Range, with the sunset at 5:55 p.m.
Just one day later, due to the return to standard time, the sunset will be at 4:54 p.m.
The U.S. Senate in March 2022 passed a bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, but it stalled in the House. The bill was re-introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio in March of this year, then referred to committee, where it has remained idle.
Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under covered issues.
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