When does daylight savings time end in 2024? When we set the fall back

Kids are returning to school and the feel of fall is in the air with cooling temperatures and earlier sunsets. The clocks too, will fall soon.

Here's when daylight saving time ends in 2024.

When do clocks fall back this year?

Daylight saving time will end on Nov. 3, in 2024 at 2 a.m., at which time it will reset to 1 a.m.

Will we lose an hour or gain an hour?

In the fall — clocks fall back one hour. You will gain an extra hour of potential sleep or play.

In the spring — clocks spring forward one hour. You will have lost an hour when you awake that morning.

When are the longest and shortest days of 2024?

This summer's solstice gave us the longest day of the year on June 20, 2024 when we had a whopping 15 hours of daylight.

The remaining month of August will continue to provide us with over 13 hours of daylight as the countdown to winter has started.

The winter solstice will bring us the shortest day of the year on Saturday Dec. 21, giving us approximately nine hours and 19 minutes of daylight.

Why do we change the clocks every year?

According to the Farmer's Almanac , the idea behind Daylight Savings Time (DST) was meant to give us more daylight during the summer evenings and then move it back to give us more daylight during winter mornings.

Maria Francis is a Pennsylvania-based journalist who covers trending topics across the Mid-Atlantic region.

This article originally appeared on USATNetwork: When does daylight savings time end in 2024? When we set the fall back