When do the clocks change? See when we spring forward, make Daylight Saving Time permanent

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04-03-2025

It's almost time to set your clocks forward one hour, with the start of Daylight Saving Time approaching.
Most of us aren't a fan of losing an hour of sleep, but the extra hour of daylight in the evenings is a plus for many. While the time change is controversial, and there have been efforts to both end Daylight Saving Time and make it permanent, nothing has been set in stone and therefore we will once again spring forward this March.
Here's everything you need to know about Daylight Saving Time.
In 2025, daylight saving time will begin at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9. It will mean losing an hour of sleep and moving the clocks around your house forward one hour, though your cell phone will likely automatically adjust.
The sun will rise and set an hour later.
Efforts to stop the changing clocks have gained footing in recent years, but nothing has become official. In 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent. But the bill was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
But in December, then-President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to put an end to daylight saving time, making standard time year-round.
"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't!" Trump wrote on social media site Truth Social. "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."
While Trump and many others hope to keep the United States on Standard Time year-round, some studies show more Americans would prefer to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, according to The Farmer's Almanac.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act which would make DST permanent, but it failed to pass the House. For the law to be considered again, it will have to be reintroduced as a new bill
Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clock forward one hour in the spring to have the sunrise and sunset at a more reasonable hour.
The Uniform Time Act established nationwide standards for the observance of daylight saving time when it was signed into law in 1966. Before that, there was a patchwork of standards as municipalities and states chose whether or not to observe the practice.
Most people have heard the myth that daylight saving time came about to give farmers an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
But in reality, farmers led the opposition to daylight saving time in 1919, a year after it was implemented in the United States as a wartime measure.
"The sun, not the clock, dictated farmers' schedules, so daylight saving was very disruptive," History.com reported. "Farmers had to wait an extra hour for dew to evaporate to harvest hay, hired hands worked less since they still left at the same time for dinner and cows weren't ready to be milked an hour earlier to meet shipping schedules."
Nationwide daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, though states and cities still had the option to enact it for themselves, leading to a patchwork of time zones across the country until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966.
Contributing: Alexis Simmerman
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: When is Spring Forward 2025? Will Daylight Saving Time become permanent?