Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5.
At that time, you’ll need to set your clocks back one hour .Here’s a look at the history of DST:We can blame New Zealand entomologist George Hudson for daylight saving time. He wanted extra hours after work to go bug hunting, according to National Geographic, so he came up with the idea of just moving the hands on the clock., arrived at the same idea a few years later and proposed moving the clock forward in the spring and back in the fall in his work, “British Summer Time.
Willett’s idea was picked up a few years later by the Germans, who used it during World War I as a way to save on coal use. Other countries would soon follow suit, most with the idea it would be a cost-saving measure. President Woodrow Wilson agreed that DST was a good idea and in 1918, he signed legislation that would shift the country to the new time system.While most of the country and about 40% of the world use DST, there are some exceptions. Arizona, Hawaii and several U.S. territories don’t fall back or spring forward with DST.. Hawaii, too, opted out under that exemption. The state has never used DST.
to provide for year-round daylight saving time if Congress were to enact a bill allowing such a change.