Wondering when it is time to set your clocks back this year?

Daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Getting an extra hour of sleep is a perk of turning back the clocks one hour in the fall, but what started the practice?

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. §§ 260-64 ) established a system of uniform daylight saving time throughout the United States and its possessions, and provides that either Congress or the Secretary of Transportation can change a time-zone boundary.

The act specifies that daylight time applies from 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March until 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November in areas that do not specifically exempt themselves.

The origin of daylight saving time has a definite link to commerce.

“In 1883, U.S. and Canadian railroads ado

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