Overview
- Clocks across most of the United States move back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, returning participating areas to standard time and bringing earlier sunrises by the clock.
- The Sunshine Protection Act, which the House approved this year to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, remains stalled in the Senate and cannot become law without Senate action.
- A new study published in Current Biology estimated permanent DST would create hundreds of millions more pre‑sunrise school commutes and found pre‑sunrise crashes had substantially higher odds of involving pedestrians.
- Several Canadian provinces and territories have already stopped changing clocks and opted for year‑round daylight time, producing a patchwork that will complicate business schedules, sports start times and digital calendar settings.
- Sleep doctors and major medical groups favor making standard time permanent because morning light better aligns circadian rhythms, and experts advise simple steps—gradual bedtime shifts and morning light exposure—to ease the Nov. 1 transition.