What is the history of daylight saving time?
Why do we observe daylight saving time, who still supports it and why medical experts believe it is a bad practice that harms public health.
Daylight Savings Time officially ends tonight, as most states in the US prepare to move back an hour.
Here’s when daylight saving time ends, why clocks go back, the Sunshine Protection Act and more.
Here’s what you need to know:
When will the US daylight saving time change come back in 2024?
States that participate in daylight saving time turn back their clocks each year when it officially ends on the first Sunday in November.
Daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March, when we turn the clock forward one hour.
When do the clocks fall back for the 2024 time change?
Our clocks will go back at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
Why does the time change at 2am during daylight saving time?
Author Michael Downing quoted his book ‘Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time,“ in an interview with Time Magazine, explaining that Amtrak and the railroads were the main reason clocks changed at 2 a.m. for daylight saving time.
When daylight saving time was established, there were no trains leaving New York City at 2 a.m. on Sundays when daylight saving time was born.
According to Downing, “Sunday morning at 2 a.m. was the time when they would cut the least number of train journeys across the country.”
Will we gain or lose an hour when daylight saving time ends?
When daylight saving time ends, we turn the clock back one hour, which means we get an hour of sleep. We lose an hour when daylight saving time starts in the spring and we set our clocks forward.
To help remember which is which, some say, “When it comes to daylight saving time, we jump forward and then fall back.”
Does Indiana observe daylight saving time? Will the clocks fall back in 2024?
Yes; Indiana uses daylight saving time.
Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are also not participating.
Which US states don’t change their clocks for daylight saving time?
As of July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation noted that only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the only exception in Arizona.
The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are also not participating.
According to the website, states may exempt themselves from daylight saving time observance by state law in accordance with the Uniform Time Act, as amended.
Why is daylight saving time a thing? What is it?
The purpose of daylight saving time is to ensure more hours of daylight per day for a number of reasons, but mainly to conserve energy. There are also arguments that having more daylight hours benefits public safety and health.
Daylight Savings Time was first introduced in the US in 1918 during World War I and was known as ‘wartime’. It was then abandoned after the war as there was no financial need to continue it at the time.
Daylight saving time as we know it today began in the US with the Uniform Time Act of 1966, but started on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October.
In 2005, it was moved to the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, as it is today. A Department of Energy study found that the additional four weeks of daylight saving time in the U.S. saved about 0.5% of total electricity per day, amounting to an energy savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt hours per year.
What is the Sun Protection Act?
The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which was created to make daylight saving time the new permanent standard time, was passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 2022, but not by the U.S. House of Representatives.
There is currently no news on when it will be debated again and then signed into law.
When does daylight saving time finally end? When will the US abolish daylight saving time?
Despite the Sunshine Protection Act passing unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 2022, there is no permanent end in sight.
When does daylight saving time start in 2025 ahead and when does daylight saving time end?
Daylight saving time starts on Sunday, March 9 and ends on November 2, 2025.
Chris Sims is a digital content producer at Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims. Katie Wiseman is a trending news reporter at IndyStar. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @itskatiewiseman.
