There’s a nip in the air and Pumpkin Spice everywhere. College football is on TV, afternoons are spent at the pumpkin patch and we’re starting to get serious about those warnings that Christmas is only so many days away.
Sure signs we’re about to move from brighter afternoons to dark evening commutes, right?
Not quite yet.
We have a little while longer until we have to change our clocks and “fall back” one hour to mark the end of daylight saving time.
DST ends Nov. 2 at 2 a.m., eight months after it started on March 9. The change shifts more daylight to the morning. We will stay on standard time until March 8, 2026 when DST starts again.
The current rules for DST have been in place since 2007 after the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended the length of daylight saving in the interest of reducing utility consumption. Those rules increased the span of DST by about a month, making it last 238 days, or about 65% of the year. This year’s DST end date is the second-earliest date the time can change, one day earlier than the earliest possible time of Nov. 1.
The change set the current schedule – DST starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
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