As Daylight Saving Time starts, it’s time to “Spring Forward” once more. It is official that the switch starts at 2:00 am on Sunday, March 9, 2025, and ends at 2:00 am on Sunday, November 2, 2025.
Records show that the phrase “spring forward, fall back” has been in use at least as far back as the early 20th century, according to timeanddate.com. With over 70 countries now using it, Daylight Saving Time affects more than a billion people each year.
In the U.S., Daylight Saving Time – or “fast time”, as it was called then – was first introduced in 1918 when President Woodrow Wilson signed it into law to support the war effort during World War I.
For modern times timeanddate.com notes, “In the United States, DST caused widespread confusion from 1945 to 1966 for trains, buses, and the broadcasting industry because states and localities were free to choose when and if they would observe DST. To clear things up, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which said that Daylight Savings Time (DST) would start on the last Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October. However, states still had the ability to be exempt from DST by passing a local ordinance.
On Monday, August 8, 2005, President Bush signed into law a broad energy bill that extended Daylight Saving Time by four weeks beginning in 2007. Since this happened, Daylight Saving Time now starts three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday of March, and ends three weeks later, on the first Sunday of November.
