Is this the last daylight savings? Here's when the time changes, what to know
Mark your calendars — we're springing forward on Sunday.
Daylight saving time is this weekend, with Florida residents and other participating states turning their clocks forward an hour.
According to timeanddate.com, "daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks one hour ahead of standard time to make use of more sunlight in the spring, summer, and fall evenings. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy and make better use of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada."
Here's what we know from when DST starts and ends in 2015 to why it exists and if President Donald Trump is actually ending it.
Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9 at 2 a.m. local time.
Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 2.
No, according to almanac.com.
"Many Americans wrongly point to farmers as the driving force behind Daylight Saving Time. In fact, farmers were its strongest opponents and, as a group, stubbornly resisted the change from the beginning," Catherine Boeckmann wrote for almanac.com.
"When the war ended, the farmers and working-class people who had held their tongues began speaking out. They demanded an end to Daylight Saving Time, claiming it benefited only office workers and the leisure class. The controversy spotlighted the growing gap between rural and urban dwellers."
President Donald Trump did not set a date but declared through social media platform Truth Social that he would eliminate daylight saving time − which would also require approval from Congress:
"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."
Polling suggests Americans favor Trump's idea of getting rid of daylight saving time. About 43% want year-round standard time, 32% want permanent daylight saving time and 25% want to stick with the status quo, an October 2021 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found.
In 2018, while governor of Florida, Sen. Rick Scott signed legislation that would exempt Florida from the time change practice and allow the state to remain on daylight saving time year-round.
The legislation requires federal approval, which has not happened.
Also in 2018, Florida became the first state to enact legislation to permanently observe daylight saving time.
The Florida Legislature approved HB 1013 on Daylight Saving Time. It was approved by the Florida House with a vote of 103 to 11 and by the Florida Senate with a vote of 33 to 2.
The Sunshine Protection Act would permanently extend daylight saving time from eight months of the year to the full 12 months. The bill was first introduced in March 2018 by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida and Rep. Vern Buchanan. The pair reintroduced the bill, along with other sponsors, in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
It was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but it was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. There is currently no news on when it will be readdressed and then signed into law.
According to USA TODAY, the country tried year-round daylight saving time once before in 1974 under President Richard Nixon.
Just a few months into the experiment, Congress voted to go back to standard time after complaints of children going to school in the dark on winter mornings.
As of July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation noted that only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the lone exception in Arizona.
The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.
According to the website, states may exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law in accordance with the Uniform Time Act, as amended.
Contributing: Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daylight saving time: Will President Trump actually get rid of it?
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