Goodbye daylight saving time, hello one more hour of sleep. When ...

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Goodbye daylight saving time hello one more hour of sleep When

If you can't wait to see clocks fall back for an extra hour of sleep, DST is ending soon. When does time change? Here's when daylight saving ends.

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Time to 'fall back' means it's also time to check those smoke alarms

The same time to set your clocks back for daylight saving time is a great time to assure your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are in order.

Summer is almost over and that means fall will be here soon.

If you're looking forward to our clocks "falling back" to get an extra hour of sleep, here's when daylight saving time ends, along with answers to other questions you might have about this annual occurrence.

Here's what you need to know:

Does California observe 2024 daylight saving time?

Yes; California observes daylight saving time.

Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.

When does the time change in 2024 for daylight savings time in the U.S.?

States participating in daylight saving time turn their clocks back when it officially ends on the first Sunday of November every year.

Daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday of March, when we turn our clocks forward an hour.

When do the clocks fall back for 2024 time change?

Our clocks will fall back at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024.

Will we gain or lose an hour when DST ends?

When daylight saving time ends, we will set our clocks back an hour, which means we will be gaining an hour of sleep. We lose an hour when daylight saving time begins in the spring when we move our clocks forward.

To help remember which is which, some say "When it comes to daylight saving time, we spring forward and then we fall back."

Why is daylight savings a thing?

The goal of daylight saving time is ensure is more daylight hours in a day for a number of reasons, but primarily to save energy. There have also been arguments that having more daylight hours benefits public safety and health.

Daylight saving time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918 during World War I and it was known as "war time." It was then abandoned after the war as there was no financial need to continue it at the time.

Daylight saving time as we know it today began in the U.S. with the Uniform Time Act of 1966, only it started on the last Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October.

In 2005 it was shifted to begin on the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November, like it is today. A Department of Energy study found the extra four weeks of daylight saving time saved around 0.5% in total electricity daily in the U.S., equaling energy savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours annually.

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What is the Sunshine Protection Act?

The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which was created to make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but it was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

There is currently no news on when it will be readdressed and then signed into law, so until then we will continue to adjust our clocks twice a year.