ICYMI: Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday. Are You Ready?

SAN ANGELO – Daylight Saving Time ends across the United States early Sunday morning so it's time to prepare to 'fall back' by setting you clocks back one hour before you go to bed Saturday night.  

The semiannual changing of the clocks headache may be coming to an end soon.  The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure abolishing Daylight Saving Time.  

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the concept was introduced to the U.S. by Germany during World War I as a way of conserving fuel and power by extending daylight hours. The U.S. abolished daylight-saving time after the war, but some states still observed it.

A bipartisan bill in both houses of Congress, introduced by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., would make Daylight Saving Time permanent year-round. That would require Congress to amend the Uniform Time Act of 1966.

One of the bill’s co-sponsors is U.S. Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa.

“Rather than ‘fall back’ into the antiquated & silly practice of changing the clocks twice a year, we should make Daylight Savings Time permanent and stop changing our clocks for good,” Toomey tweeted.

Today, states may exempt themselves from daylight saving time. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. 

Like it or not, Daylight Saving Time comes to an end early Sunday morning, Nov. 6.  so clocks 'fall back' from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. giving us all one additional hour of 2022.  

You're welcome.  

 While most cell phones will adjust the time automatically Sunday morning,  it’s time for that twice a year round of going throughout the house changing all the clocks one hour.