Daylight saving time 2024: When do the clocks spring forward this year?
The clock was turned back an hour in November and soon it will be time to spring it forward. Find out when daylight saving time starts and ends in 2024.
Most people in the United States must change the time of their clocks twice a year, specifically on the second Sunday in March, when daylight saving time begins, and on the first Sunday in November, when it ends.
The time last changed on Nov. 5 last year, when the clock was turned back one hour. The next change will be on Sunday, March 10, when daylight saving time begins, and the clock must be advanced one hour.
Later in 2024, the time will change again on Sunday, Nov. 3, when daylight saving time ends and clocks must be turned back one hour.
In most cases, you don’t have to worry about making the change manually, since electronic devices such as smartphones make the change automatically at 2 a.m., whether for the start or end of daylight saving time.
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Which places in the US do not change their clock?
In some parts of the United States people do not change their clocks, as they do not observe daylight saving time. This is because the Uniform Time Act of 1966 allows states to exempt themselves from observing it.
The state of Hawaii and most of Arizona do not have daylight saving time, so you should never set your clocks forward or back when you are there. Other US territories in the Pacific and Caribbean Sea, such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, also maintain standard time year-round.
Arizona had used daylight saving time since 1918, but decided to stop using it in 1968. Although the state maintains standard time, Navajo Nation in the northeast of the state does observe daylight saving time, so the time changes twice a year.
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Efforts to remove time changes fail
In March 2022, the US Senate unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States. The bipartisan bill, called the Sunshine Protection Act, sought to ensure that Americans would no longer change their clocks twice a year.
However, the proposal was not approved by the House of Representatives, so it did not reach President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.