It’s that time again, the end of Daylight Saving Time. At 2:00 am on Sunday, November 2, we set our clocks back an hour until we spring forward again in March 2026. But just like most issues these days, the idea of Daylight Saving Time has many Americans divided. Some people love the idea of getting a bonus hour of sleep on that first night, like @Bigleo415, who is already celebrating.
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Others hate the thought of having their days get shorter and their sleep schedule thrown off, even if it’s just for one day. Just ask @auntie.amex who doesn’t appreciate having to use a flashlight to find her car in the parking lot after work in the evening.
“Explain how the day just started seven minutes ago and it’s already night time again,” she said in a TikTok.
And Daylight saving time disproportionately harms Black communities by worsening existing sleep and health inequities, leading to higher rates of chronic health problems. And while most people think daylight saving was invented by farmers to have more time to work in the fields, the truth is most farmers were against the idea when it was first introduced in 1918. During World War I, daylight saving was intended to be a way to save energy if people spent more time outside.
But if some members of Congress have their way, we may never have to do this foolishness again. The Sunshine Protection Act, proposed legislation that would put an end to all of the clock-changing confusion for good, has received bi-partisan support in both the House and Senate from those who argue that more daylight hours would bring lower crime, fewer heart attacks and car accidents along with it. However, the act remains stuck in Congress, as some opponents say ending the practice of changing our clocks could cause more harm than good.
“If permanent daylight savings time becomes the law of the land, it will again make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans,” Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said. “The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans.”
So for now, we’ll keep springing forward and falling back (except in Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) until someone tells us otherwise. Enjoy that extra hour of sleep tonight, you’ll be paying for it in darkness until March.
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