We are one week away from darkness falling earlier in the evening as daylight savings time ends. Next weekend, on Sunday, November 2nd, clocks are set back 1 hour (“fall back”), at 2am, gaining an hour.
Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. To remember which way to set their clocks, folks often use the expression “spring forward, fall back.”
Daylight saving time was first established in the U.S. by Congress after the Calder Act, or the Standard Time Act of 1918, was passed more than 100 years ago and was more recently amended with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.