Daylight saving 2024: When do we fall back? Make sure you know when the time change is.

It’ll soon be the time of year when evenings grow darker earlier, and items at your local home decor store are in hues of gold, red, and orange.

Fall approaches, and here’s when it is and when you need to change your clocks.

When does daylight saving time end?

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 3. Californians will have to set their clocks back one hour on that day.

Daylight saving time began on March 10, when people set their clocks one hour ahead of standard time in a practice rooted in using sunlight more in the evenings. It became a national standard in 1966 through the Uniform Time Act, which was established to conserve energy. Next year, it will begin again on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

Does every state observe daylight saving time?

Not all states and U.S. territories participate in daylight saving time.

Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. Because of its desert climate, Arizona doesn't follow daylight saving time (with the exception of the Navajo Nation). After most of the U.S. adopted the Uniform Time Act, the state figured that there wasn't a good reason to adjust clocks to make sunset occur an hour later during the hottest months of the year.

There are also five other U.S. territories that do not participate, either:

• American Samoa
• Guam
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Puerto Rico
• U.S. Virgin Islands

The Navajo Nation, located in parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, does follow daylight saving time.

Hawaii is the other state that does not observe daylight saving time. Because of its proximity to the equator, there is not a lot of variance between hours of daylight during the year.

Is daylight saving time ending permanently?

The push to stop changing clocks was put before Congress in the last couple of years, when the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, a bill to make daylight saving time permanent.

Although the Sunshine Protection Act was passed unanimously by the Senate in 2022, it did not pass in the U.S. House of Representatives and was not signed into law by President Joe Biden.

A 2023 version of the act remained idle in Congress as well.

This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: Daylight saving 2024: When do we fall back? Make sure you know when the time change is.