People in many places of the US have to change their clocks twice a year: once in the spring, when Daylight Saving Time (DTS) starts, and again in the fall, when it ends. Time changes for one hour on the second Sunday of March every year.
In 2024, that day was March 10, at 2:00 a.m., when the clocks were set ahead one hour. This is the start of the time change to Daylight Saving Time. As the year goes on, the end of Daylight Saving Time gets closer, which means that we will be back on Standard Time.
It is planned that Daylight Saving Time will end in November 2024. It will officially end on the first Sunday of every month, which in this case is November 3. That’s just in time for Halloween for both kids and adults.
The clocks will be turned back one hour on this date at 2:00 a.m. to return to Standard Time. This change gives people an extra hour of sleep each night and ends the DTS time until it starts again the following year.
In today’s world, most electronic devices, like smartphones, are set to automatically change the time at 2:00 a.m. without any user input. This makes the process less frustrating than it used to be, when all the clocks had to be adjusted and alarmed properly.
The pattern of Daylight Saving Time will stay the same in the future. For example, DST will start on March 9, 2025, and end on November 2, 2025 of that year. Starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November every year, these times are set in stone.
Who participates in Daylight Saving Time
When it comes to Daylight Saving Time, the US does something strange: unlike most other countries, not all parts of the US join. Most states change the time every two years, but some areas don’t have to because they don’t follow DST. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 lets this exception stand. This law lets states and territories choose not to use Daylight Saving Time.
A very small number of states in the continental U.S. do not follow Daylight Saving Time. Hawaii and most of Arizona are two well-known places that do not, so people who live there do not need to change their clocks.
Also, some U.S. areas in the Pacific and Caribbean, like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, don’t change to Daylight Saving Time. Instead, they stay on Standard Time all year.
Daylight Saving Time has a long and interesting past in the state of Arizona. The state of Arizona started using Daylight Saving Time in 1918, but stopped doing so in 1968. Because of this, most of Arizona stays on Standard Time all year. But there is one place in the state that doesn’t follow this rule: the Navajo Nation.
This part of Arizona, in the north-east, does follow Daylight Saving Time, so the clocks are turned back and forward twice a year, just like the rest of the country. Because of this, people who live on the Navajo Nation feel the time change but not people who live in the rest of Arizona.
These exemptions make an already tough situation even worse. They don’t help when crossing state lines or keeping track of time, but most people have gotten used to things where they live, so there aren’t many problems.
If you’re not sure about DTS, checking the time in the capital of a certain state can help you figure out if they follow the time change or if you need to manually set your device if it doesn’t do it itself.
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