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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – Whether you dread it or welcome it, daylight saving time is fast approaching this year.People should expect to turn their clocks ahead an hour in the early morning of March 12.
Daylight saving time ( DST ), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time ( United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the system of uniform daylight saving time throughout the US. [1] In the U.S., daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, with the time changes taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time. With a mnemonic word play referring to seasons, clocks "spring ...
Establishing either permanent standard or daylight saving time (DST) eliminates the practice of semi-annual clock changes, specifically the advancement of clocks by one hour from standard time to DST on the second Sunday in March (commonly called "spring forward") and the retraction of clocks by one hour from DST to standard time on the first Sunday in November ("fall back").
With daylight saving time for 2023 coming to an end Sunday, the majority of people in the U.S. will “fall back” one hour as standard time resumes. For most, this means an extra hour of rest ...
The current sunrise in Raleigh is around 7:35 a.m., and sunset is around 6:15 p.m., according to sunrise-sunset.org. Once daylight savings ends this weekend, here’s how the length of the day ...
Early Sunday morning North Texas turned clocks back an hour ending daylight saving time. The time change, which occurs on the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November, left ...
The Sunshine Protection Act is a proposed United States federal law that would make U.S. daylight saving time permanent, meaning the time would no longer change twice per year. [1] [2] The bill has been proposed during several sessions of Congress. In 2022, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later ...