Daylight Savings Time Returns March 13th

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Daylight Savings Time returns to most states in the U.S. at 2am Sunday, March 13th. That means setting your clocks forward one hour until the first weekend in November.

While there has been a great deal of debate on leaving the time at either Standard or Daylight Time, not enough states or the Congress have taken the action required to do away with the shifting back and forth in Spring and Fall.

In the last few years, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions to provide for year-round daylight saving time, if Congress were to allow such a change, and in some cases, if surrounding states enact the same legislation.

The 19 states are: Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Florida and California. 

The only parts of the U.S. that do not have Daylight Saving Time are Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Arizona experimented with the change beginning in 1918, but decided to permanently opt out of the Daylight Saving Time in 1968.

The nominal reason for daylight saving time has long been to save energy. The time change was first instituted in the U.S. during World War I, and then re-instituted again during WW II, as a part of the war effort.