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Date:2025-04-24 01:07:45
After months of early sunsets and long hours of darkness, are you ready for longer days yet?
As daylight saving time approaches in a few weeks, sunset times around much of the U.S. have been getting later and later each day. In March, most of us will "spring forward" in daylight saving time, as we lose an hour of sleep to accommodate for more daylight in the summer evenings.
Daylight saving time will end for the year in November, when we set our clocks back and gain an 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, later sunsets.
Here's what to know about daylight saving time in 2024, including if our daylight hours are already increasing.
Have the days been getting longer?
The winter solstice, which occurs annually on Dec. 21, is the day that has the shortest daylight hours for the year. Since then, the days have been gradually getting longer.
Ahead of daylight saving time starting for the year in March, some areas are already experiencing later sunset times. On the East Coast, states including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Connecticut are already recording sunsets around 5-5:30 p.m., as the Earth's axis tilts toward the sun.
Although sunset times can vary by time zones, other states across the country are also recording even later sunset times, including cities in California, Texas, Michigan and Florida.
What is daylight saving time?
Daylight saving time is the time between March and November when most Americans adjust their clocks by one hour.
We lose an hour in March (as opposed to gaining an hour in the fall) to accommodate for more daylight in the summer evenings. When we "fall back" in November, it's to add more daylight in the mornings.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal, or spring equinox is March 19, marking the start of the spring season.
When is daylight saving time in 2024?
Daylight saving time will begin for 2024 on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time, when our clocks will go ahead one hour, part of the twice-annual time change that affects millions, but not all, Americans.
When does daylight saving time end in 2024?
In 2024, daylight saving time will end for the year at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 3. It will pick up again next year on Sunday, March 9, 2025.
Is daylight saving time ending permanently?
The push to stop changing clocks was put before Congress in the last couple of years, when the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. However, it did not pass in the U.S. House of Representatives and was not signed into law by President Joe Biden.
A 2023 version of the act remained idle in Congress as well.
What is daylight saving time saving?Hint: it may not actually be time or money
Does every state observe daylight saving time?
Not all states and U.S. territories participate in daylight saving time.
Hawaii and Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) do not observe daylight saving time, and neither do the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Because of its desert climate, Arizona doesn't follow daylight saving time. After most of the U.S. adopted the Uniform Time Act, the state figured that there wasn't a good reason to adjust clocks to make sunset occur an hour later during the hottest months of the year.
The Navajo Nation, which spans Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, does follow daylight saving time.
Hawaii is the other state that does not observe daylight saving time. Because of its proximity to the equator, there is not a lot of variance between hours of daylight during the year.
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