Get Ready to Spring Forward

SAN ANGELO, TX — Daylight saving time begins Sunday, March 8, 2026, when clocks across most of the United States, including Texas, will “spring forward” one hour at 2 a.m.

The change means most people will lose an hour of sleep but gain extended evening daylight through the warmer months. Standard time returns Nov. 1, 2026, when clocks “fall back” one hour.

Arizona and Hawaii do not observe daylight saving time, and a handful of other areas are also exempt under federal law. 

Efforts to end the biannual clock changes continue in Congress. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent year-round, has been introduced multiple times, most recently by Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, but has not become law. In 2022, the Senate passed the bill unanimously, but it stalled in the House. 

President Donald Trump has expressed support for eliminating the time changes altogether, calling daylight saving time “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation” in a December 2024 social media post. 

Health organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American Medical Association, recommend making standard time permanent, citing research that shows time switches disrupt sleep patterns and align poorly with human biology. 

Daylight saving time, first widely adopted in the U.S. during World War I to conserve energy, has been in its current form — starting the second Sunday in March and ending the first Sunday in November — since 2007.