Daylight Savings Coming to an End? 

Daylight Savings Coming to an End 

Written By: Kira Kipp 

Daylight savings ends this weekend. The practice of moving the clocks forward one hour in the summer in order to preserve daylight into the evening begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. We turn the clocks back on November 5th, but is it for the last time? 

Many have speculated the end of daylight savings, claiming this year will be the very last. 

In 2022 the senate approved the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill proposed to make daylight savings time permanent. This would mean not changing the clocks back in November. 

We can trace this practice all the way back to 1895, when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Hudson, proposed the idea of a two hour time shift to allow him more hours of sunshine to bug hunt in the summer. 

The U.S. adopted daylight savings in 1918, standardizing it in 1966 with the Uniform Twice Act. The act allows states to opt out but not stay on daylight savings permanently.

While many ideas are being proposed and many states are reconsidering, no official decisions have been made and for now daylight savings will remain.