When is the time change? 5 things to know about what's coming
In a hurry? Feel like time is getting away from you? Losing sleep?
You may be anticipating the next big time change. The time change when we lose an hour of sleep.
Yes, we're talking about the arrival of daylight saving time.
We wrap everything up for you in a quick, easy-to-read package. Here are five things — well, we did sneak in a bonus one because it was interesting but you don't have to read it — to know about the time change coming up soon.
Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9.
Simply put: because of train schedules. When daylight saving time was introduced, 2 a.m. was the time that would interrupt the least number of trains, according to Michael Downing in his book, "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time."
A midnight time change would have required moving the date to the previous day.
Move your clock forward one hour, if you have to do it manually.
Use this handy phrase to remember: Spring forward, fall back.
While the Sunshine Protection Act — to make daylight saving time permanent — was approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, it wasn't approved by the U.S. House of Representatives or signed into law by the president.
Florida has preferred to stay on daylight saving time all year.
While a state needs congressional approval to stay on daylight saving time all year, staying on standard time all year only requires a state law. The state also would need to notify the U.S. Department of Transportation it will not be observing daylight saving time, the DOT said in an email.
That would be a big no. Farmers were the strongest opponents to daylight saving time and resisted it from the beginning, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
'The farmer objects to doing his early chores in the dark merely so that his city brother, who is sound asleep at the time, may enjoy a daylight motor ride at eight in the evening," the Old Farmer's Almanac said, citing a writer for the "Literary Digest."
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Time change 2025: When is daylight savings?
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