Google searches for the time change are already ramping up as some Floridians are eager for more sunlight after work and others thought we stopped doing this already. (It starts in March.)
Twice a year, most Americans adjust their clocks forward an hour in the spring («spring forward!») to make better use of the longer summer daylight hours and back an hour in the fall («fall back!») to align our days back to the standard time. Many people consider it an aggravating practice that at least initially disrupts sleeping habits.
While most Americans want to end the time changes (also called «lock the clock»), we don’t have a firm consensus on which time to stick with, daylight saving or standard time.
It’s an important question, since one of them requires an act of Congress, but the other can be done whenever a state wants to.
Appropriately, the Sunshine State was the first of the nearly 40 U.S. states hoping to make daylight saving time permanent, but that’s the act-of-Congress one and movement on this in the federal government has been sluggish for almost a decade.
Here’s what to know.
When does daylight saving time 2026 start?
Daylight saving time, by federal mandate, begins on the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November.
This year, daylight saving time starts Sunday, March 8, at 2 a.m. local time, when most states will move their clocks forward one hour.
It will end Sunday, Nov. 1, at 2 a.m. local time, when clocks are moved back one hour.