RICHMOND — While most of the nation’s clocks fell back an hour on Sunday, a majority of Americans said they want to move forward and stop changing the clocks for good.

The end of daylight saving time, or DST, falls on the Sunday after Halloween. In Virginia, this Sunday is also just two days before the statewide election, when voters will decide the state’s next governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and who gains control of the House of Delegates.

The Republican and Democratic candidates for governor and lieutenant governor were contacted to get their take on opting out of DST, but no one responded to the request.

The time change was enacted by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which required all states to adopt DST but also allowed states to exempt themselves. Hawaii and Arizona

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