06-03-2025
Time change 2025 set to spring forward. Will Trump end daylight saving time in US? When DST starts
Daylight saving time is this weekend, and it's time to start preparing for the moment we spring forward in the United States.
Here's what to know from when DST starts and ends to why it exists and if President Donald Trump is ending daylight saving time.
Here's what you need to know about DST in 2025:
Participating states turn clocks forward an hour on the second Sunday in March during the spring. daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday of November in the fall of each year and that's when states turn clocks back an hour.
In the U.S., clocks will officially spring forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, 2025.
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We lose an hour of sleep when the clocks "spring forward" and are turned ahead at 2 a.m. for one hour when daylight saving time begins.
In the fall when DST ends, clocks "fall back" an hour in November. That is when people gain an hour of sleep.
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."
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Donald Trump on time change: Says he will push to end daylight saving time
Clocks fall back on Sunday, Nov. 2, in 2025.
In an interview with Time Magazine, author Michael Downing cited his book, "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time," to explain how Amtrak and the railroads were the main reason clocks change at 2 a.m. for DST.
There were no trains leaving the station at 2 a.m. on Sundays in New York City when daylight saving time was established.
"Sunday morning at 2 a.m. was when they would interrupt the least amount of train travel around the country,' Downing said.
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.
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Visit to see the current time in Indiana.
Yes; Indiana observes daylight saving time.
Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.
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The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which was created to make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, 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.
Despite the Sunshine Protection Act being unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, there is no permanent end in sight.
No, according to
"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
"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."
Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9, and ends on Nov. 2 in 2025.
Chris Sims is a digital content producer for Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims.
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Daylight savings time 2025: Spring forward in March? Will Trump end DST?
