Is this the last daylight savings time change? Here's when daylight saving time ends (2025)

If you're having a hard time getting going this Monday morning, it's because we're officially in daylight saving time. We've arrived to the time of year that many look forward to for longer daylight hours and many dread for the lost hour of sleep that we get during standard time.

Daylight saving timebrought a time change this weekend, with Florida residents and other participating states turning their clocks forward an hour.

According totimeanddate.com, "daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks one hour ahead of standard time to make use of more sunlight in the spring, summer, and fall evenings.Daylight saving time (DST) is used to save energyand make better use of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada."

Here's what to know about when DST started and ends in 2025,why it existsand ifPresident Donald Trump is actually ending it.

What time do we switch to daylight savings? Here's when daylight saving time 2025 started

Daylight saving time began on Sunday, March 9 at 2 a.m. local time.

When does daylight saving time end?

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 2.

Daylight saving time math: 'Spring forward, fall back' meet '3 hours in the summer, 2 in winter'

Did Daylight Saving Time start because of farmers?

No, according toalmanac.com.

"Many Americans wrongly point to farmers as the driving force behind Daylight Saving Time. In fact, farmers were its strongest opponents and, as a group, stubbornly resisted the change from thebeginning,"Catherine Boeckmann wrote for almanac.com.

"When the war ended, the farmers and working-class people who had held their tongues began speaking out. They demanded an end to Daylight Saving Time, claiming it benefited only office workers and the leisure class. The controversy spotlighted the growing gap between rural and urban dwellers."

Trump and daylight saving time: Will he end the time change in 2025?

President Donald Trumpdid not set a date but declared throughsocial media platform Truth Social,that he would eliminate daylight saving time − which would also require approval fromCongress:

"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight saving time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."

Polling suggests Americans favor Trump's idea of getting rid of daylight saving time. About 43% want year-round standard time, 32% want permanent daylight saving time and 25% want to stick with the status quo, an October 2021 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Researchpollfound.

Will Florida stop daylight savings time?

In 2018, while governor of Florida, Sen.Rick Scott signed legislation that would exempt Florida from the time changepractice and allow the state to remain on daylight saving time year-round.

The legislation requires federal approval, which has not happened.

Also in 2018, Florida became the first state to enact legislationto permanently observe daylight saving time.

The FloridaLegislature approved HB 1013 on daylight saving time.It was approved by the Florida House with a vote of 103 to 11 and by the Florida Senate with a vote of 33 to 2.

Was the Sunshine Protection Act passed? What is it?

TheSunshine Protection Actwould permanently extend daylight saving time from eight months of the year to the full 12 months.

The bill wasfirst introduced in March 2018 bySen. Marco Rubio, R-Floridaand Rep. Vern Buchanan. The pair reintroduced the bill, along with other sponsors, in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

It was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but it was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. There is currently no news on when it will be readdressed and if it could be signed into law.

Has the U.S. ever gotten rid of daylight saving time?

According to USA TODAY, the country tried year-round daylight saving time once before in 1974 under President Richard Nixon.

Just a few months into the experiment, Congress voted to go back to standard timeafter complaints of children going to school in the dark on winter mornings.

What states are not observing daylight savings time?

As of July 25, 2022, theU.S. Department of Transportationnoted that only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the lone exception in Arizona.

The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.

According to the website, states may exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law in accordance with theUniform Time Act, as amended.

Contributing: Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY