Joe Roskey of Sign Craft, of Riviera Beach, Fla. works on the outdoor clock at the First Federal Savings and Loans, at the corner of Olive Avenue and Southern Blvd in this photo circa April 1999.

With autumn now in full swing, the United States is less than two weeks away from the end of daylight saving time.

Despite calls to get rid of the clock change, daylight saving time is still in season across most of the U.S., as the twice-a-year movement of clocks either backward or forward accounts for more daylight in the mornings or evenings for millions of Americans.

This November, when daylight saving time ends for 2025, clocks will "fall back," meaning those affected will gain an extra hour of sleep. But for some regions of the country, the time change will also mean an earlier sunset and more hours in the dark of night.

Here is what you need to know about the time change.

When does daylight saving time end in 2025?

Daylight saving time will end for the year at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 2.

This year's time change comes a day earlier than last year and falls on the second-earliest possible date for the time change. Since daylight saving time falls on the first Saturday in November, the earliest possible date is Nov. 1.

Next year, daylight saving time will begin again on Sunday, March 8, 2026.

Could daylight saving time be eliminated?

President Donald Trump has shown support for doing away with the time change and has called it “inconvenient.”

"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time," Trump said on Truth Social in December 2024. "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."

But later this year, he said it was a toss-up and difficult to rally support for.

"This should be the easiest one of all, but it's a 50-50 issue. If something's a 50-50 issue, it's hard to get excited. I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier, because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark," Trump said in March, according to Reuters. "A lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way, it's very even."

In April, he said the House and Senate should push for more daylight at the end of the day, which is consistent with his stance from 2019, according to Politico.

What is daylight saving time?

Daylight saving time is the time between March and November when most Americans adjust their clocks ahead by one hour.

We gain an hour in November (as opposed to losing an hour in the spring) to make for more daylight in the winter mornings. When we "spring forward" in March, it's to add more daylight in the evenings. And in the autumn, we "fall back."

USA TODAY’s Kinsey Crowley contributed to this report.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.

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