Get ready for another hour of SC sleep. Here’s when daylight saving time will end in 2024

If you are a nocturnal person, your time has almost come.

Daylight saving time will end at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3, forcing most Americans to set their clocks back one hour. This year, the time change has been in effect since March 10.

The long-standing tradition of moving clocks forward or back one hour each year has been the bane of many sleep-deprived Americans for decades.

Didn’t the Supreme Court vote to end daylight saving time?

In 2020, the South Carolina legislature voted to make the time change permanent. This means the state would stop changing its clocks twice a year and would no longer have to endure darkness before dinner during the winter months. However, the law won’t go into effect until Congress votes to eliminate the time change.

What did Congress do about daylight saving time?

Congress has tried several times in recent years to end the time change, but to no avail.

Among the most recent, a 2023 bill introduced by Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., would allow states to keep daylight saving time year-round. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, has introduced a similar bill. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has also pushed for the 2023 version of the Sunshine Protection Act. Those bills have all stalled in committee.

Why make daylight saving time permanent?

The United States has had some form of daylight saving time since 1918, with the current federal policy being adopted in 1966. A few changes have taken place since then, primarily adjustments to the start and end dates.

Daylight saving time was originally introduced to save energy by letting in more natural light in the evening. Some studies have questioned these savings.

Other studies have shown that daylight saving time has health consequences. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has stated that “based on the evidence that daylight saving time carries numerous health and injury risks and is inconsistent with human circadian biology, the position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is that seasonal time changes should be abolished in favor of permanent standard time.”