Daylight Savings Time Fall 2009 Ends November 1
Daylight Savings Time Ends Next Weekend for Much of the United States
Daylight Savings Time this fall for the United States doesn't end until the first Sunday in November, which this year is November 1. For those folks in Europe, time change has already happened. So if you are in Europe and you didn't turn back your alarm clock, then you did sleep through Sunday services today.
Wait! Didn't Daylight Savings Time used to end the last Sunday in October?
The change in Daylight Savings Time occurred in 2007, when Congress changed the law to extend it one month. For 20 years, Daylight Savings Time started the first Sunday in April and ended the last Sunday in October. Now Daylight Savings Time starts the second Sunday in March and extends through to the first Sunday in November.
What time do we turn back our clocks this fall?
The actual time to change your clocks back is at 2:00 a.m., so it's best just to do it the night before unless you work overnights. In that case, your shift will actually be nine hours that night instead of eight, since at 2:00 a.m., it actually becomes 1:00 a.m. again.
What regions don't use Daylight Savings Time?
In the United States, Arizona is the only state that doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time. Currently, Arizona is using Pacific time; however, once the time changes, residents of Arizona will be using Mountain time.
There are parts of Canada that don't observe Daylight Savings Time, and most of Africa and Asia don't either. There are regions in South America and Australia that do observe Daylight Savings Time, but most of those continents do not.
When is the abbreviation "CDT" and when is it "CST", using Central time zone as an example?
Use CDT (Central Daylight Time) during the months of Daylight Savings Time, March - November, until it ends the first Sunday of November. From November - March, until Daylight Savings Time begins the second Sunday in March, use CST (Central Standard Time).
Sources:
"Daylight Savings Time", WebExhibits.com
"Time Change Fall 2009", News.Cnpanyu.com
"Arizona Time Zone is MST", About.com:Phoenix
"Time Change Could Cause Headaches with Gadgets", The Baltimore Sun archives
"Daylight Savings Time World Subdivisions", Wikipedia.org
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12 Comments
Post a CommentThanks for the reminder! I like the fall back better than the spring forward.
If I forgot to set my clocks BACK, I would actually show up early to church. I would leave my home at 7:00 (what I still think is 8:00), rather than 8:00 (real, new 8:00).
I did this last year.
Useful info, presented in a reader-friendly manner. Thanks! (Congrats on Clout 10!!!)
Love the question and answer format - sure answered a lot of MY questions about Daylight Savings Time.
So next Sunday I don't have to be at work until technically 7:30 instead of 6:30.....works for me:)
Ms. Adams, Arizona is NOT on Pacific Time. Not now. Not ever. Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time all year long. That does not move Arizona into the Pacific Time Zone during the DST time period. Yes, the time on clocks in Arizona is the same as Pacific Daylight Time, but Arizona is never in the Pacific Time Zone.
The correct terminology is
Daylight Saving Time, no S.
Yea, what's with getting a main point completely backward?
In the fall clocks move back one hour, thus giving you more time not less, so like the other commenter said you will be 1 hr early for church if you forget to change your clock.
Correction, neither Arizona nor Hawaii observes Daylight Savings Time. Hawaii has its own timezone HST and that's it.
You got a lot of complicated facts in a row, easy to understand...