When it’s time to retreat, it’s also time to check the smoke detectors
The time when you change your clocks for daylight saving time is also a good time to make sure your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors are working.
Summer is almost over and that means fall is almost here.
If you’re looking forward to our clocks going back and getting an extra hour of sleep, here’s information about the end of Daylight Saving Time, as well as answers to other questions you may have about this annual event.
What you need to know:
Yes, California observes daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time is not observed in Hawaii and parts of Arizona. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate in daylight saving time.
In states that observe daylight saving time, the clocks change each year on the first Sunday in November, when the time officially ends.
Daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March when we set our clocks forward one hour.
On Sunday, November 3, 2024, our clocks will go back at 2 a.m.
When daylight saving time ends, we set our clocks back an hour, which means we gain an hour of sleep. When daylight saving time begins in the spring and we set our clocks forward, we lose an hour.
To make it easier to remember the time, some people say, “When it comes to daylight saving time, we first set the clocks forward and then back again.”
The aim of daylight saving time is to ensure more hours of daylight per day. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is to save energy. There are also arguments that more hours of daylight are beneficial to public safety and health.
Daylight saving time was first introduced in the United States in 1918 during World War I and was known as “war time.” It was abolished after the war because there was no financial need to maintain it at the time.
Daylight saving time as we know it today began in the United States with the Uniform Time Act of 1966. However, it began on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October.
In 2005, the time change was moved and now begins on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, as it does today. A study by the Department of Energy found that the additional four weeks of daylight saving time in the United States saves about 0.5% of total electricity consumption each day, which equates to an energy saving of 1.3 billion kilowatt hours per year..
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The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, passed the U.S. Senate unanimously in 2022, but not the U.S. House of Representatives.
There is currently no news on when this will be addressed again and put into effect, so until then we will continue to change our clocks twice a year.
If you’re one of those people 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 for IndyStar. Reach her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @itskatiewiseman.
