Overview
- Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Nov. 1, when clocks across most of the country will be set back one hour to Standard Time.
- The Sunshine Protection Act, passed by the House in July to make daylight saving permanent, has not cleared the Senate and faces no clear path to the 60 votes typically needed to advance it.
- President Trump has publicly pressed senators to pass the bill and criticized holdouts, while senators such as Tom Cotton and others oppose permanent daylight saving because it would push winter sunrises much later.
- Sleep doctors and groups including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine say Standard Time aligns better with human circadian rhythms and offer guidance—keep regular bedtimes, get morning daylight, avoid late caffeine, and exercise in the morning—to ease the clock change.
- States cannot adopt year‑round daylight saving without federal approval, so laws like Texas’s plan for permanent daylight saving remain ineffective unless Congress changes the Uniform Time Act; historically Congress briefly tried year‑round DST in 1974 and reversed course after public backlash.