Daylight saving time 2024: How quickly can we “reach back” and change the clocks?

STATEN ISLAND, NY – Daylight saving time is about to end this year and we will be “falling back” to standard time.

At 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3rd, Daylight Saving Time will officially end, and on Saturday evening, November 2nd, clocks will go back one hour as we “fall back” to standard time.

Sunrise will be about an hour earlier on November 3rd and there will be a little more light in the early morning. But it will get dark earlier this evening.

Moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring gives us more daylight on summer evenings, while moving the clocks forward one hour in the fall gives us more daylight on winter mornings, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Not all states are participating. Two states – Arizona, excluding the Navajo Nation, and Hawaii – do not observe daylight saving time. Additionally, some overseas territories such as Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands do not change their clocks, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the idea of ​​daylight saving time. In 1784 he published a satirical essay entitled “An Economic Project”. In it he brought up the idea of ​​saving money and resources through the sensible use of daylight.

Germany was the first country to introduce summer time. In 1916, during World War I, the country began using daylight to save electricity.

Daylight saving time was first introduced in the United States in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established time zones.

We return to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 9, 2025.