If daylight saving time starts and you forget to change your clock, you can't blame us for not warning you.
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So what is DST? When does the time change? Will daylight saving time end in 2024?
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Here's what you need to know about daylight saving time in 2024.
Participating states move their clocks forward one hour on the second Sunday in March in the spring. Daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday in November each fall, and states set their clocks back one hour.
In the United States, clocks will officially move forward at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
When our clocks are “fast-forwarded” we lose an hour of sleep, and when daylight saving time begins we move an hour forward at 2am.
Once DST ends in the fall, clocks will go “backwards” by one hour in November. That's when people get an hour of sleep.
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In an interview with Time magazine, author Michael Downing cited his book “Spring Forward: The Annual Daylight Saving Madness.”” Explain that Amtrak and railroads are the main reasons clocks change to 2 a.m. during daylight saving time.
In New York City, where daylight savings time was in effect, no trains left the station at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Mr Downing said: “2am on Sunday was the time of day when train service across the country was most disrupted.”
The clocks will turn back on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
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To see the current time in Indianapolis, visit timeanddate.com.
Daylight saving time is intended to provide extra sunlight during the spring, summer, and fall seasons, but daylight saving time in Indiana has a very complicated past. Indiana has gone some time without switching its clocks, but the Hoosiers now move their clocks forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall.
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As of July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation said only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the only exception in Arizona.
American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands will also not participate.
According to the website, states can provide exemptions from observing daylight saving time by state law under the Uniform Time Act, as amended.
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Although the Sunshine Protection Act was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, there is no permanent end in sight.
According to The Hill, the bill was not signed into law by the U.S. House of Representatives, citing other priorities that needed to be addressed before addressing DST. Therefore, the bill has not been signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D.N.J.) told The Hill in July that efforts to find an agreement on daylight saving time remain unsuccessful, with more emphasis on geography than partisan arguments. Told.
“The problem is, a lot of people say to me, 'Oh, I shouldn't have to switch back and forth, I should just use standard mode or daylight saving time,' but I don't know which one to choose. We disagree about whether it should be enacted,” Pallone told The Hill.
“So, that's the problem. If you're going to do it just once, there has to be a consensus on what that would be, and we don't have a consensus on that yet.”
The Sunshine Protection Act of 2023 has been sitting in the House of Representatives all year.
Chris Sims is a digital content producer at Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFims.
