Remember to set your clocks back one hour Saturday night as we return to standard time early Sunday morning. Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 AM Sunday, November 2, 2025. It is also a good idea to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
Daylight saving time runs from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. The U.S. government first enacted daylight saving time in 1918 as a way to conserve coal during World War I. The practice became law in 1966 with the federal Uniform Time Act.
Hawaii and most of Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) are the only two states that don’t observe daylight saving time. The U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands also don’t observe daylight saving time.
There have been many efforts to stop this bi-yearly clock change from Daylight to Standard Time. The most recent was this week but this effort stalled once again, according to numerous news outlets.
Reuters’ David Shepardson reported: “The U.S. Senate briefly took up a long-stalled effort on Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-yearly practice of switching clocks, but again failed to reach consensus.
“Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, and other senators went to the floor to push for passage of the bill first unanimously approved in March 2022, but Senator Tom Cotton said he would oppose any effort to fast-track the bill.
“Congress has debated the issue for years. It held a legislative hearing earlier this year and won support from President Donald Trump for the change, but does not appear any closer to agreement.”
Shepardson’s story explained that Cotton said that the bill’s proponents are pushing Congress to repeat a prior mistake that would create absurdly late winter sunrises and force children to go to school in darkness in much of the country.
So, once again, we “fall back” to Standard Time on Sunday.