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Daylight saving time ends Sunday as debate over permanent standard time continues

Clocks fall back an hour at 2 a.m. Nov. 1, while scientists and Congress remain split on whether to stop changing them at all.

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What to know

  • Clocks fall back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, ending daylight saving time for the year.
  • The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act in July 2026 to make daylight saving time permanent, but the Senate has not acted on it.
  • Scientists, Stanford Medicine research, the National Sleep Foundation and the American Medical Association favor permanent standard time over permanent daylight saving time, citing health risks from the clock change and from evening-shifted light.
  • A March YouGov poll found most people want the clock changes to stop entirely, even if they lean toward preferring daylight saving time.

Vadim Zipunnikov Johns Hopkins University professor of biostatisticsU.S. House of Representatives Legislative bodyNational Sleep Foundation Health advocacy organizationAmerican Medical Association Medical professional association

Daylight saving time ends Sunday as debate over permanent standard time continues
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  1. background

    Clocks fall back one hour, ending daylight saving time for 2026 — At 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November, most of the U.S. returns to standard time, shifting an hour of daylight from evening back to morning.

  2. 2

    News outlets remind readers clocks fall back this weekend

    Multiple outlets published explainers on when and how daylight saving time ends, noting sunrise and sunset shifts and reviewing the history of the time change dating to World War I.

    “If we are going to lock the clock, most in the scientific community agree we ought to lock it on standard time…”
    — Vadim Zipunnikov, Johns Hopkins biostatistics professor · source
    1. 18 outlets Do we change clocks this weekend? When daylight saving time ends

      first by Greenville Online, 13d ago · also The Oregonian, MassLive, PennLive, ABC News, USA Today, IMDb +11

      17 more headlines
    2. 6 outlets It's time to change the clocks this weekend

      first by SooToday.com, 12d ago · also Vox, CBC, Democrat and Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Guelph News

      5 more headlines
    3 more claims →
    • Swede1952

      Good morning. 🫖☕😃 1 November 2026 You've made it to November, and the next milestone is already in sight. Daylight Saving Time is over for the year, so don't forget to set your clocks back. I know some of you still have a few clocks that need manual adjustment. Our phones and computers pick up the change automatically. Even our car does. The…

      Swede1952Mastodon10d ago28▲view on Mastodon ↗
    2 more of the top 3 · 17 posts in this stretch

    • Every story on this seems to ignore the fact that Saskatchewan has been on permanent DST for decades. They officially call it standard by using central standard time, but they're in the mountain geographic zone and it's the same as mountain daylight time.

      Sir__Willr/canada13d agoview on r/canada ↗
    • harold@mastodon.social

      We can never let research influence political decisions ;) "Research suggests permanent standard time — the time we return to in the fall — is more closely aligned with the body's internal clock than permanent daylight time, which several provinces have chosen." https://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/daylight-sa ving-time-canada-health-9.7399791 #…

      harold@mastodon.socialMastodon13d agoview on Mastodon ↗
    all of them →
  3. 1 day quiet
  4. 1

    Scientists argue for permanent standard time, not daylight time

    Johns Hopkins biostatistics professor Vadim Zipunnikov and groups including Stanford Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation and the American Medical Association say locking the clock on standard time, not daylight saving time, would reduce strokes, obesity, heart attacks and depression linked to the twice-yearly switch.

    1. 15 outlets How permanent daylight saving time could affect schools

      first by The Conversation, 13d ago · also The Washington Post, The National Tribune, Popular Science, Medical Xpress, Mirage News, NY Post +8

      16 more headlines
    • dyckron@cosocial.ca

      "It’s hard to penetrate the powers of populism." Oh, now we're in trouble, you for saying it, me for repeating it! 😅 Year-round daylight time has a dark side. Here’s how Canada can prepare for it https://www. theglobeandmail.com/life/artic le-permanent-daylight-time-how-to-prepare-clocks-change-time-zone/ https:// unwall.app/www.theglobeandmail…

      dyckron@cosocial.caMastodon15d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    • I agree with you. My logic was that if each province is deciding themselves to shift an hour, it’s already disrupting the global time zone patterns. I realize that there’s no chance in hell that the half hour shift will ever happen, I think it has to be a whole country thing to do it.

      eastlizwestr/canada13d agoview on r/canada ↗
    • dyckron@cosocial.ca

      "One possible solution would be to push back start times for schools and workplaces so people are not required to begin their days before daylight arrives." Good luck with that! B.C. permanent daylight time raises safety concerns https://www. ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vancouver…

      dyckron@cosocial.caMastodon16d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  5. background

    House passes the Sunshine Protection Act — Legislation to make daylight saving time permanent year-round cleared the House in July 2026 and moved to the Senate, which has not acted on it.

  6. background

    YouGov poll finds support for permanent daylight time — A YouGov poll released in March showed more people prefer permanently 'springing forward' than 'falling back,' though most respondents said they simply wanted the clock changes to stop altogether.

Also covered reported alongside — the timeline has no entry for these yet

  1. 4 outlets Permanent Daylight Saving Time could put schoolchildren’s lives at risk. An expert explains

    first by CNN, 13d ago · also CP24, CTV News, Winnipeg Free Press

    2 more headlines
  2. 3 outlets Daylight saving time ends Sunday: Where the move to make it permanent now stands

    first by PennLive, 15d ago · also MassLive, The Oregonian

  3. 2 outlets A Halloween treat: What to know about daylight saving time

    first by Baltimore Sun, 13d ago · also Newsweek

    1 more headline
  4. 2 outlets More evening light, less sleep? The health concerns behind B.C.’s time change

    first by CTV News, 11d ago · also CP24

and 6 smaller pieces

What people are saying 16 voices from 2 sites · best of 24 · verbatim