What is Daylight Saving Time? When is it? Do we gain an hour or lose an hour in March? What to know about DST and when clocks spring forward in 2025

What is Daylight Saving Time? When is it? Do we gain an hour or lose an hour in March? What to know about DST and when clocks spring forward in 2025

Is Daylight Saving Time doomed now that Donald Trump has taken office? In December 2024, then-President Elect Trump said he would try to end the practice when he took office in January 2025. But it is not clear whether Trump wants the country to remain “falling back” (in Standard Time) or in “spring forward” mode.

The government first instituted standard and daylight saving times as part of the Standard Time Act of 1918, USA Today reported. “Federal oversight of time zones began in 1918 w

We’re less than a month away from the annual ritual of changing the clocks and moving to daylight saving time.

No, daylight saving time isn’t this weekend. But it’s coming soon. On Sunday, March 9, most Americans will be changing their clocks — at least the ones that still require changing — by springing them forward an hour in observance of daylight saving time,

Daylight Saving Time is less than two weeks away, and the time to spring forward is getting closer for California and most of the United States. California and other participating states turn clocks forward an hour on the second Sunday in March, during the spring.

Soon, Illinois will officially "spring forward" from standard time to daylight saving time, marking the first of two clock changes set for 2025.

For years, Americans nationwide have battled “springing ahead” and “falling back." Despite the controversy, it'll soon be time to switch the clocks again. Here's when.

Is it time to stop changing our clocks twice a year? Here's a state-by-state look at efforts to make daylight saving time permanent.