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About Daylight Saving Time Ends

Daylight Saving Time in the United States ends each autumn, when clocks are set back by one hour, returning to standard time and shifting daylight back toward the morning hours for the following several months. Its end date shifts every year because it is defined by a formula, the first Sunday of November, rather than a fixed day of the month, meaning the exact date depends on how the calendar falls in a given year, and clocks typically change at 2 a.m. local time on that Sunday. This end date, like the March start date, was set by federal legislation, with the current first-Sunday-of-November rule dating to the mid-2000s, when the overall daylight saving period was extended compared to earlier decades' schedules. The transition is popularly associated with the phrase "fall back," contrasted with "spring forward" for the March change, a simple mnemonic that has helped the practice stick in public memory despite the somewhat confusing direction of the underlying formula. In recent years, the twice-yearly clock change has become the subject of ongoing public debate and periodic legislative proposals in the United States aimed at eliminating the biannual shift entirely in favor of a single, permanent time standard, though as of recent years such proposals have not been enacted into law nationwide. A common misconception is assuming Daylight Saving Time is observed uniformly nationwide; in practice, a small number of states and territories do not participate in the twice-yearly change at all and remain on standard time throughout the year.

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