Are you ready for the sun to set before 5 p.m.?
Coloradans will join millions of other Americans Sunday, Nov. 5, in shifting their clocks an hour backward as daylight saving time ends for the year.
Clocks “fall back” at 2 a.m. Sunday, giving observers an extra hour of sleep.
The end of daylight saving time marks earlier sunsets and longer nights.
In Denver, the end of daylight saving time means sunsets will arrive before 5 p.m. until January.
No time change is observed in Hawaii, most of Arizona (the Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time), Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in October 2021 found that most people in the United States want to avoid switching between daylight saving and standard time, but there was no consensus on what time should be permanent.
Of the respondents, 43% said they would like to see standard time used during the entire year, while 32% said they would prefer that daylight saving time be used all year.
According to The Old Farmers Almanac, the creation of daylight savings was to use natural daylight better: moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring to get more daylight in the evening, and moving the clocks back in the fall to get more daylight in the morning.
Daylight saving time returns March 10, 2024.
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