“Daylight Savings Time" or “Daylight Saving Time”
“Daylight Savings Time" or “Daylight Saving Time”
Daylight Saving Time (“DST”) is the practice of moving the clocks forward one hour from Standard Time during the summer months and changing the time back again in the fall.
The general idea is that this allows us all to use natural daylight better. Moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring grants us more daylight during summer evenings, while moving clocks back one hour in the fall grants us more daylight during winter mornings.
Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
To remember which way to set clocks, folks often use the expression, “spring forward, fall back.”
Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 3, 2024, at 2 a.m. On Saturday night, clocks are set back one hour (i.e., gaining one hour) to “fall back.” Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour earlier on November 3, than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.
Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 9, 2025, at 2 a.m. On Saturday night, clocks are set forward one hour (i.e., losing one hour) to “spring forward.” Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour later on March 9, 2025, than the day before. There will be more light in the evening.
In the U.S., exceptions to DST are Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
The correct term is “Daylight Saving Time“ and not “Daylight Savings Time” (with an extra “s”), though many of us are guilty of saying it the wrong way. The technical explanation is that the word “saving” is singular because it acts as part of an adjective rather than a verb.
After Daylight Saving Time begins and through the summer months, the period is called “Daylight Time,” abbreviated “DT.” When Daylight Saving Time ends, we return to “Standard Time” or “ST.” This abbreviation includes the time zone. For example, Central Daylight Time is CDT, and Central Standard Time is CST.
Source: https://www.almanac. com/content/when-daylight-saving-time.
