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Trump’s push to end Daylight Saving Time forever: what you need to know about 2025’s time change

Residents of the United States may no longer have to remember when Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time start and end.

Roddy Cons

Scottish sports journalist and content creator. After running his own soccer-related projects, in 2022 he joined Diario AS, where he mainly reports on the biggest news from around Europe’s leading soccer clubs, Liga MX and MLS, and covers live games in a not-too-serious tone. Likes to mix things up by dipping into the world of American sports.

Update: Feb 18th, 2025 05:27 EST

It happens twice every year, yet many of us struggling to remember when it’s happening or what’s going to happen. Daylight Saving Time (DST) was first implemented in the United States in 1918 as a wartime measure to conserve energy resources. In 2025, it thankfully serves rather different purposes, although could it be about to come to an end?

How to remember when the clocks change

“Spring forward, fall back” is the phrase commonly used to work out whether we move our clocks forward or back at different times of the year. If you’re still confused, we lose an hour in March (2:00 a.m. becomes 3:00 a.m.), which we then get back in November (3:00 a.m. becomes 2:00 a.m.).

DST is observed in most of Europe, most of North America and parts of Africa and Asia around the Northern Hemisphere summer, and in parts of South America and Oceania around the Southern Hemisphere summer.

In the United States, Arizona (excluding Navajo Nation), Hawaii and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands do not observe DST, using only Standard Time.

When do the clocks change in 2025?

In 2025, Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time will operate as normal, with clocks to go forward on Sunday, March 9, and back on Sunday, November 2.

That comes despite the US Senate unanimously approving the Sunshine Protection Act, that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, in 2022. But the US House of Representatives didn’t pass the bill and then president Joe Biden didn’t sign it, which meant the change didn’t happen.

Now that Biden has been succeeded by Donald Trump, Daylight Saving Time could soon be a thing of the past…just not this year (as it stands).

The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2024

“Inconvenient” and “costly”: Trump pledges to eliminate DST

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump posted on Truth Social and X on December 13.

Since Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, he hasn’t passed any executive legislations related to abolishing Daylight Saving Time. It seems as if it’s coming, we just don’t know when.

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