This weekend, don’t forget to adjust your clocks – daylight saving time will be giving you an extra hour of sleep.
Sunday at 2 a.m. we’ll fall back one hour. It will then be 1 a.m.
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Nov 6, 2022 than the day before, with sunrise set for 7:11 a.m. and sunset at 5:32 p.m.
Daylight saving time in most of the United States starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
Individual states have considered legislation to end the twice-annual clock changes, but this can only be made possible on a federal level.
In March of this year, the U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would permanently end daylight saving time, but that bill has not made it to the House. It would require House passage and the president’s signature to become law.
According to The Sleep Foundation, if the bill were to pass in the next year, as it’s written, “permanent daylight saving time would take effect on Nov. 5, 2023. In other words, we would move our clocks forward again in March and keep them there. Until the bill or another like it passes, however, we’ll be sticking with clock changes twice a year.”
As of November this year, though, the House has not discussed or voted on this bill since it passed in the Senate.
Kentucky introduced Daylight Savings Time in 1918 because of efforts to save energy.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 aligned the switch dates across the USA for the first time.
The current DST schedule was introduced in 2007 and follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Hawaii doesn’t use DST – it uses Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time. That’s where the sun rises and sets around the same time all year.
Most of Arizona observes Standard Time, and Indiana didn’t introduce DST until 2006.