Time change 2025 to spring forward in about 6 weeks. When clocks move for Daylight Saving Time
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Daylight saving time: When does it start?
Ready for more sun? Daylight saving time is right around the corner.
Daylight Saving Time arrives in a little more than six weeks, and most people across the United States will spring forward and be forced to adjust their sleep schedules once again.
Here's what we know from when DST starts and ends to why it exists and if President Donald Trump is ending Daylight Saving Time.
Here's what you need to know about DST in 2025:
Participating states turn clocks forward an hour on the second Sunday in March during the spring. Daylight Saving Time ends on the first Sunday of November in the fall of each year and that's when states turn clocks back an hour.
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In the U.S., clocks will officially spring forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, 2025.
We lose an hour of sleep when the clocks "spring forward" and are turned ahead at 2 a.m. for one hour when Daylight Saving Time begins.
In the fall when DST ends, clocks "fall back" an hour in November. That is when people gain an hour of sleep.
Clocks fall back on Sunday, Nov. 2, in 2025.
In an interview with Time Magazine, author Michael Downing cited his book, "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time," to explain how Amtrak and the railroads were the main reason clocks change at 2 a.m. for DST.
There were no trains leaving the station at 2 a.m. on Sundays in New York City when Daylight Saving Time was established.
"Sunday morning at 2 a.m. was when they would interrupt the least amount of train travel around the country,' Downing said.
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As of July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation noted that only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the lone exception in Arizona.
The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.
According to the website, states may exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law in accordance with the Uniform Time Act, as amended.
Visit timeanddate.com to see the current time in Louisville.
Kentucky first observed daylight saving time in 1918, when the Standard Time Act established daylight saving time to conserve electricity during World War I. After the war was over, daylight saving was no longer national law and became a local option.
Between 1918 and today, Kentucky observed daylight saving time for 75 years, according to timeanddate.com. For a while, cities across Kentucky were inconsistent, with some observing the time change and others not.
But starting in 1970, Time and Date AS has tracked observance of daylight saving time in Kentucky every year.
Over the years, researchers have tried to tie your body getting an hour less of sleep that night to a variety of issues, including an increase in car crashes and health problems such as heart attacks and strokes.
In 2019, Kentucky Republican Reps. Bart Rowland of Tompkinsville and Brandon Reed of Hodgenville pre-filed a bill to do away with resetting clocks every six months and instead use daylight saving time all year long. To do so, however, requires authorization by the federal government.
Under federal law, states are allowed not to observe daylight saving time, with Arizona and Hawaii being the lone states to do so. States are not allowed to stay on daylight time throughout the year.
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The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which was created to make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but it was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
There is currently no news on when it will be readdressed and then signed into law.
Despite the Sunshine Protection Act being unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, there is no permanent end in sight.
President Donald Trump did not set a date but declared through social media platform Truth Social that he would eliminate Daylight Saving Time − which would also require approval from Congress:
"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."
Donald Trump on time change: Says he will push to end Daylight Saving Time
No, according to almanac.com.
"Many Americans wrongly point to farmers as the driving force behind Daylight Saving Time. In fact, farmers were its strongest opponents and, as a group, stubbornly resisted the change from the beginning," Catherine Boeckmann wrote for almanac.com.
"When the war ended, the farmers and working-class people who had held their tongues began speaking out. They demanded an end to Daylight Saving Time, claiming it benefited only office workers and the leisure class. The controversy spotlighted the growing gap between rural and urban dwellers."
Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9, and ends on Nov. 2 in 2025.
Chris Sims is a digital content producer for Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims.
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