New Yorkers, brace yourselves: The era of post-work sunshine is about to end.

We've long since said goodbye to the 7pm sundown . Now we have to contend with the fact that the city’s final 6pm sunset of 2025 will happen on Saturday, October 25, and after that, twilight will move in fast. On October 26, the sun sets at 5:59pm; by Sunday, November 2, it’s down to 4:50pm—a full hour earlier overnight.

The culprit is Daylight Saving Time , which officially ends on November 2 at 2am when clocks “fall back” an hour. The system, now part of American life for over a century, was first introduced during World War I as a fuel-saving measure and later formalized under the Uniform Time Act of 1966. That law standardized the practice across the country while letting states opt out—a choice exercis

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