Daylight saving time 2024. When does daylight saving time end this year and the clocks fall back?

The end of daylight savings time in 2024 is finally here. The clock turns back an hour this weekend, and a longer stretch of days with the arrival of darkness at 17 begins.

Summer time ending at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 3, 2024, when the clock will “fall back” an hour and in theory gives us an extra hour of sleep.

The amount of daylight has continued to decrease slightly each day since summer began on June 20. The last sunset later than in New Jersey until March took place last week. After the clocks are rolled back, the next sunset after 17 in New Jersey first occur in mid-January.

The amount of daylight continues to decrease each day until December 21, when the winter solstice arrive at 4:19, which marks the official start of winter. The length of days will then begin to increase until the summer solstice on June 20, 2025.

The flip side is that the sun will rise about an hour earlier each morning after we return to normal time this weekend.

On Saturday, sunrise in New Jersey is approximately 7:29, and sunset is around 17:53. The next day the sun rises at 6:30, but goes down at 16:52.

Clocks “fall back” at 02.00 on the first Sunday in November to 01.00

Daylight saving time started on Sunday, March 10, 2024 and ends on Sunday – a run of 238 days. It has lasted from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November since 2007.

Next time we turn the clocks forward on March 9, 2025 – 126 days after turning them back. Daylight saving time in 2025 ends on November 2, 2025.

The concept goes back more than a century, when English architect William Willett proposed the idea of ​​changing the clocks in 1907 in “Waste of daylight.” The suggestion to use daylight more efficiently can be traced to Benjamin Franklin.

While visiting Paris in 1784, he wrote a letter to the editors of the “Journal of Paris” calling for a tax on all Parisians whose windows were closed after sunrise to “stimulate the economy by using sunshine instead of candles,” according to Michael Downing, author of “Spring Forward: Summertime’s Annual Madness.”

Daylight saving time became widespread in the United States, then Uniform Time Act of 1966 was passed. Back then, daylight saving time ran from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, and states were allowed to opt out.

In 1986, daylight saving time was changed to run from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. The most recent revision came into effect in 2006, when Energy Policy Act of 2005 revised summer time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. The time change is also not observed in the US territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands. All of Indiana did not begin to observe Summer time until 2006.

Eighteen states have enacted legislation to make summer time permanent. Voters in California have voted to approve year-round daylight saving time. However, these changes require federal approval.

In March 2022, the US Senate passed The Sunshine Protection Actwhich would end up changing the clocks twice a year. The US House of Representatives have not voted on ithowever.

A handful of provinces in Canada — most of Saskatchewan and the Yukon — have adopted permanent daylight saving time, as have parts of British Columbia and two communities in northwestern Ontario.

About 70 countries observe summer time. Most of North America, Europe and parts of South America and New Zealand adhere to it, while China, Japan, India and most other countries do not.

It starts on different dates elsewhere. In Europe, there are e.g. Summer time starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October.