Daylight saving 2025: When do we ‘spring forward’ our clocks?

The Daylight saving time will start next month, so don’t get too comfortable with standard time. As winter nears its end, Americans will soon have to adjust their clocks once again, which means clocks will move ahead by one hour, and will cost an hour of sleep for many. But on the brighter side (quite literally), it will extend evening daylight, which means you can enjoy some more time out with your friends and even take your pets outside and they get more time to spend with you.
What is Daylight Saving Time?

Daylight Saving Time is a timekeeping practiced by Americans where their clocks ‘spring forward, fall back’. This is a biannual ritual where the clock is moved forward by one hour in the spring or late winter and back by one hour in the fall.
It is the time between March and November when most Americans adjust their clocks ahead by one hour.
North America and Europe largely follow this ritual, however, some places, like American Samoa, Hawaii, and most of Arizona do not follow this clock. Places near the equator (where day and night are nearly the same length year-round) or countries like India and Japan don’t follow DST.
In March, we set our clocks forward by an hour (unlike in the fall when we gain an hour) to extend daylight during summer evenings. In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring, or vernal, equinox falls on March 20, signaling the beginning of the season.
Why do we have DST?

Daylight saving time has long been debated due to its biannual shifts. Originally introduced during World War I as an energy-saving measure, this practice continues today to conserve energy and maximize daylight, particularly during the longer summer months.
While myths suggest DST was practiced so that farmers get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, it's not the case. They in fact opposed it in 1919, a year after DST was implemented in the U.S. as a wartime measure. "The sun, not the clock, dictated farmers’ schedules, so daylight saving was very disruptive. 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,” according to History.com. "
When will DST start in 2025?

The Daylight saving time will begin on March 9, 2025. Most Americans will lose an hour of sleep that day when the clocks turn forward one hour at 2 a.m. When we spring forward, sunrise will be at 7:08 a.m. and sunset will be at 6:47 p.m. in Worcester. It will end on Nov 2.


Is Trump in favour of the DST?
President Donald Trump, just like many other Americans does not like the idea of the spring forward and fall back. In December, he stated that he would put an end to daylight saving time altogether. "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,” Trump wrote Truth Social post in Dec.
Trump has yet to pass any executive legislation to permanently end daylight saving time.
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