Daylight Saving Time Is About To End: What To Know

Daylight saving time is scheduled to end in a couple of weeks, moving both sunrise and sunset back an hour in a practice that dates back to 1918.

Most Americans will “fall back” to standard time — that is, they will set clocks that don’t automatically calibrate to the adjusted time — on Sunday, Nov. 2.

After years of legislative setbacks, progress has been made on the federal Sunshine Protection Act, a measure for year-round daylight saving time championed by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his years as a U.S. senator from Florida.

President Donald Trump is on the record in support of year-round daylight saving time, as proposed companion U.S. House and Senate bills introduced in January. But Congress would have to act swiftly to pass them before Nov. 2.

In an April post on his social media platform, Trump urged Republicans in Congress to “push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day.” In March, ahead of the “spring forward” time change, he acknowledged the difficulty in reaching a consensus, calling it a “50-50 issue” with compelling arguments on either side, Reuters reported.

“I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier, because they don’t want to take their kids to school in the dark,” he said at the time. “A lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way, it’s very even.”

The Sunshine Protection Act proposals in Congress are among four new bills concerning daylight saving time; all have been referred to committee, The Hill reported. The other two bills would allow states to choose whether to observe permanent daylight saving time.

The House version of the Sunshine Protection Act, introduced by Florida Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan, was co-sponsored by more than two dozen Republican representatives..

The Senate version introduced by Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has drawn bipartisan support, with eight Democrats among the 18 co-sponsors.

At least 19 states have passed laws or resolutions to observe daylight saving time year-round if federal permission is granted, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a non-partisan, non-governmental organization that conducts policy research for state legislatures.

Although polls show most Americans oppose the twice-yearly practice of changing clocks, there is no clear consensus on whether to permanently adopt daylight saving or standard time.

For example, a January 2025 Gallup poll found that only 19 percent of U.S. adults want to continue switching between the two. More than half of the respondents said they want to sunset daylight saving time for good, 40 percent said they’d like to see it established as the permanent time, and 6 percent were undecided.

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