Losing sleep: Spring forward for daylight saving time tonight
Published 12:31 pm Saturday, March 8, 2025
- Historic clock restoration specialist Chuck Roeser of New York works on the tower clock in the Old Red Museum, in downtown Dallas in 2019. TNS photo
It’s time to spring forward.
Daylight saving time begins this weekend. Clocks will move forward one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9.
Most devices these days will update automatically to the daylight saving time, but traditional clocks will need to be manually adjusted forward by one hour.
Despite some recent efforts to end seasonal time changes, we will continue to spring forward in March and fall back in November for the foreseeable future.
Efforts on the West Coast to end the time changes have stalled once again. To switch to permanent daylight saving time, Oregon, Washington and California must all agree to the change. Once all three West Coast states agree, the move would also require congressional approval.
In 2024, an effort to place Oregon on year-round standard time died in the legislature. Oregon Senate Bill 1548 passed the Senate but was not sent to the Oregon House of Representatives, effectively killing the measure.
National legislation ending seasonal time changes more broadly has been proposed in Congress, but has yet to become law.
Daylight saving time will end on Sunday, Nov. 2, when we will fall back once again.
