Daylight saving time ends soon in Kentucky. When to set your clock back an hour
In case you’ve forgotten, there’s a time change this weekend, when daylight saving time ends in the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov. 2.
Daylight saving time transitions occur twice a year in the spring and fall across much of the U.S., and if you’re wondering, Kentucky isn’t any closer to abolishing the practice.
This year’s daylight saving time officially ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday, when clocks are turned back one hour.
The time change should leave you feeling more rested Sunday morning, given the extra hour of sleep. However, to avoid any jarring transitions, set your manual clocks back one hour the night before. Your microwave, oven and car clocks may need adjusting, but digital devices, such as smartphones and computers, should change automatically.
Is daylight saving time going away in Kentucky any time soon?
It was the Uniform Time Act of 1966 that first created the system of daylight saving time throughout the country. It was later amended to create the system we know of today: winding clocks forward one hour in March and backward again the first Sunday in November.
Under the federal law, states have the ability to exempt themselves from daylight saving time by passing their own laws, and some U.S. states and territories do. Those include most of Arizona and all of Hawaii, along with the American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
However, states don’t have the authority to make daylight saving time permanent.
Several Kentucky lawmakers have tried various efforts to end clock-changing, but they haven’t been successful.
At the federal level, the Sunshine Protection Act has been introduced in Congress several times, including this year, but it has yet to become law.
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