A billboard in Florida advocates for the end of Daylight Savings Time.
No daylight saving time: While America springs forward and falls back, Arizona sticks to its time guns. We like our sunrises and sunsets right where they are on the clock, so you can keep your time ambivalence.

With less than a week to go before the end of daylight saving time, some places in the United States are already feeling the effects of the time change with earlier and earlier sunsets.

Despite calls for year-round daylight saving time, the twice-a-year movement of clocks remains across the country, with the looming Sunday, Nov. 2, signaling more daylight in the mornings for millions of Americans.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, two states, Arizona and Hawaii, observe permanent standard time; however, 19 states have enacted legislation that would enact year-round daylight saving time if Congress were to allow such a change.

But, with the end of daylight saving time still a reality for most of the United States, here is what you need to know about the time change.

When does daylight saving time end in 2025?

Daylight saving time ends for the year on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 a.m. local time.

This year's daylight saving time ends a day earlier than last year and falls on the second-earliest possible date for the time change. Since daylight saving time falls on the first Saturday in November, the earliest possible date is Nov. 1.

Next year, daylight saving time will begin again on Sunday, March 8, 2026.

Could daylight saving time be eliminated?

President Donald Trump previously supported the notion of eliminating daylight saving time.

"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time," Trump said on Truth Social in December 2024. "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."

But later this year, he said it was a toss-up and difficult to rally support for.

"This should be the easiest one of all, but it's a 50-50 issue. If something's a 50-50 issue, it's hard to get excited. I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier, because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark," Trump said in March, according to Reuters. "A lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way, it's very even."

Similar to his stance in 2019, per Politico, Trump in April said the House and Senate should push for more daylight at the end of the day.

What is daylight saving time?

Daylight saving time is the time between March and November when most Americans adjust their clocks ahead by one hour.

We gain an hour in November (as opposed to losing an hour in the spring) to make for more daylight in the winter mornings. When we "spring forward" in March, it's to add more daylight in the evenings. And in the autumn, we "fall back."

Contributing: Reuters & Kinsey Crowley/ USA TODAY

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