Daylight saving time for 2024 will begin on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time, and will result in Americans losing an hour of sleep as they “spring forward.” Daylight saving time will end on Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m. local time, when clocks will be set back an hour, and people will gain an hour of sleep. Even though the interruption caused by the time change has led to dissatisfaction among the public, legislative efforts to eliminate daylight saving time have not been successful. Not all states and U.S. territories participate in daylight saving time, with Hawaii, Arizona, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands not following it. Despite the U.S. Senate unanimously approving the Sunshine Protection Act, which aimed to make daylight saving time permanent, the bill did not pass in the U.S. House of Representatives and was not signed into law by President Joe Biden. The act, which remained inactive in Congress in 2023, aimed to put an end to changing clocks twice a year. Overall, the time change, which occurs between March and November, results in fewer hours of sleep in the days following the change, and later sunsets. In Arizona, the decision to not observe daylight saving time was based on the lack of variation in daylight hours due to the desert climate, making it unnecessary to adjust clocks.
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Get ready to ‘spring forward’: Daylight Saving Time for 2024
