When do we change clocks back for end of daylight saving time 2023? When is extra hour of sleep?
It’s officially sweater weather.
With cooler temperatures at hand, football on the TV and pumpkin patches full of people, fall is here. And with the changing of the season comes another tradition – moving the clocks back one hour to mark the end of daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023 at 2 a.m., which, for most people, means moving clocks back one hour before bed on Saturday night, Nov. 4 – assuming your smart devices don’t handle the task for you.
The change – or “falling back” – means it can feel like you get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday, though in reality it just shifts more daylight into winter’s morning hours. The change means dark afternoons with the amount of daylight decreasing each day until Dec. 21 when the winter solstice arrives and the amount of daylight begins to increase again.
We will be living with dark afternoons until March 10, 2024 when DST starts again. It will end again on Nov. 3, 2024.
Under federal law, DST begins on the second Sunday in March and runs through the first Sunday in November. It’s not observed everywhere, however. Parts of Arizona, Hawaii and some U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands do not observe DST.