By: Pamela Stern
It’s almost time to spring forward! Daylight saving time 2023 begins at 2 am on Sunday, March 12th, meaning you’ll set your clock to 3 am at that point.
Daylight saving time only lasts for eight months and will come to an end on Sunday, November 5, 2023. This is how it has been since2007, when Congress declared that daylight saving time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
The observance is often misidentified as “daylight savings time” with an extra “S,” but its name comes from the idea of saving daylight.
That being said, daylight saving time isn’t observed the same way — or at all — in some parts of the country. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 standardized time zones and daylight saving practices around the United States, but it allowed individual states to pass laws exempting themselves. Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not observe the time change.
