A seemingly endless January and February moving into the rearview means spring is almost here, and the beginning of daylight saving begins.
Millions of Americans will turn their clocks ahead an hour to mark the start of daylight saving 2025. That’s when Americans “spring forward” and gain an hour of daylight and the end of the day, along with some prolonged darkness in the morning.
The decades-long practice means most Americans will lose an hour of sleep on the second Sunday of March, but they’ll gain it back on the first Sunday of November.
When does the time change for daylight saving in 2025?
Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9.
For people living in states that participate, that means turning clocks forward one hour on the second Sunday of March, causing a “spring forward” and the loss of a precious hour of sleep.
When does daylight saving end, and we “fall back?”
Daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday of November each year. That means clocks will “fall back” this year on Sunday, Nov. 2.
Do all states and territories recognize daylight saving time?
The short answer is “no.”
Hawaii and Arizona are the only two states that don’t observe daylight saving time. The U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands also don’t fiddle with their clocks twice a year.
In Arizona’s case, state legislators decided they didn’t want an extra hour of sunshine beating down on the state during its hottest months in the desert. The Navajo Nation ‒ which spans Arizona, Utah and New Mexico ‒ recognizes the time change, making it the lone participant in Arizona.
As for Hawaii and the territories, their proximity to the equator makes daylight saving irrelevant, The Dispatch previously reported.
Are some states considering ending daylight saving time?
Some states aren’t considering ending daylight saving time but making it permanent year-round to stop the clocks from changing.
Bills have been introduced in the state legislatures of Ohio, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania to that effect. The Ohio bill calls on Congress to make daylight saving permanent rather than changing state law.
The Maine legislature is considering its own bill to make Eastern Standard Time—the time in effect from November to March—permanent year-round.
Didn’t President Trump say he would end daylight saving time?
He did.
Back in December, before he took office, President Donald Trump declared in a Truth Social post that he wanted to end to daylight saving time and make standard time year-round.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” he wrote. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient and very costly to our Nation.”
As of this publication, there have been no executive or legislative attempts to do away with daylight saving.
Is it daylight savings or daylight saving?
The way you say it is probably different than how you spell it.
Many people refer to the practice as “daylight savings” with an “s,” but the official term is “daylight saving” as in “to save daylight,” The Dispatch previously reported.
