When does daylight saving time end this year?

STATEN ISLAND, NY – There’s a chill in the air and colorful leaves blowing everywhere. So we all know what’s next: We’re saying goodbye to daylight saving time.

It officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3rd, and on Saturday evening, November 2nd, we will set our clocks back one hour – unless they reset themselves – to standard time.

According to our new clock setting, sunrise will wake us up about an hour earlier on November 3rd, and there will be a little more light in the early morning. However, expect it to get dark earlier in the evening.

Looking to the future, we will set our clocks forward one hour again in the spring, giving ourselves an hour more daylight in the late spring and summer evening hours, when the warm weather calls us to exercise, grill out and take long walks outdoors on the beach.

But if we set the clocks back an hour in the fall, we’ll have more daylight in the early morning hours. This helps us with early dog ​​walking, commuting and school bus travel.

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.

However, not all states take part. 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 at all and remain in standard time, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.