When do we turn clocks back in 2024?

WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) — Feel like you need a little extra sleep these days? We feel you.

With that in mind, the second most wonderful time of the year may be upon us shortly (depending on how you rate times of the year). Prepare yourself to return to standard time if you’re in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, as well as most parts of the U.S.

If you’re among people asking yourself “When do we turn the clocks back an hour?,” we have the 2024 answer for you.

It’s Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. (which means that becomes 1 a.m., giving you that extra hour of shut-eye).

There have been plenty of pushes over the course of many years to put an end to the twice-a-year clock change. In fact, dozens of states had legislation in 2023 that aimed at doing that. They either failed or stalled out in the process.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), which oversees the country’s time zones, also oversees the uniform observance of daylight saving time. (The reason USDOT has oversight of the time zones is because time standards are important for many modes of transportation.)

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USDOT doesn’t have the power to repeal or change daylight saving time. It also doesn’t play a part in a state’s decision to observe daylight saving time. The USDOT’s website explains that state’s may choose to exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time (according to the Uniform Time Act), by state law. They can’t choose to be on permanent daylight saving time.

Congress would have to sign off on an end to the clock changing for the country. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is among federal lawmakers who introduced legislation to do that through his Sunshine Protection Act of 2023.

Neither Hawaii nor Arizona observes daylight saving time, which means standard time is, well, the standard all the time. (The only exception in Arizona is the Navajo Nation.) Additionally, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands do not move their clocks each year.

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