Daylight saving time will end on Nov. 2 at 2 a.m.

When daylight saving time ends in autumn, the clocks "fall" back one hour

Daylight saving time will kick in again on March 8, 2026

With school back in sesssion and the sunset already seeming to come a little sooner, you might be starting to wonder when daylight saving time ends.

In the fall, clocks "fall back" an hour as a holdover from war times. DST was first enacted by the federal government on March 19, 1918, as a measure to save on fuel costs during World War I by adding an extra hour of sunlight to the day, according to the Library of Congress .

But DST didn't become federal law until 1966, with passage of the Uniform Time Act . It established DST from the last Sunday of April through the last Sunday of October.

The law

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