Daylight Savings Time News: When Does It Begin in the U.S.?

By Vianne Ilagan, Christian Post Contributor Sunday, October 22, 2017

This is the time of the year again when people start questioning if clocks really do change in October or November for daylight savings time. Actually, it does in both months — it's just that it depends on where a person lives.

In the months of October and November, clocks change for daylight savings time if a person sets his clock back for an hour on Sunday, Oct. 29, or a week later on Sunday, Nov. 5. However, for people who live in places where daylight saving time is not recognized, there is no need to change their clocks at any time of the year. Although many places around the world observe daylight savings time, there are those, especially in the U.S., that do not necessarily have to change their clocks twice in a year just like other places do.

In the U.S., Hawaii and most of Arizona do not change their clocks twice a year because they do not recognize daylight saving time. While Canada and the U.S. share the same calendar when it comes to clock-changing, there are certain places in Canada that do not observe this time change, particularly Saskatchewan and parts of Quebec and British Columbia.

For both the U.S. and Canada, daylight savings time begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. This year, that will fall on Nov. 5. After that, daylight saving time will return on March 11, 2018.

Meanwhile, the British people call daylight savings time British Summer Time, and they observe this by changing their clocks a week before the people in the U.S. do. In this part of the globe, daylight savings time begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. Hence, next week on Oct. 29, the people of Britain start changing their clocks.