Twice a year, people throughout the country change their clocks — once to “spring ahead,” and again to “fall back.”Here's when to change the clocks in 2025.

Texas lawmakers are resurrecting a yearslong debate regarding whether to end the decades-long practice of daylight saving time. Legislation has been filed in the Texas House and Texas Senate to end the process of changing the clocks twice a year.

Texas lawmakers are reviving efforts to eliminate the decades-long practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

Although winter may linger a while longer, daylight saving time and the first signs of spring will come to Texas in about a month.

According to TimeAndDate.com, daylight saving time will start on Sunday, March 9, this year. Clocks will “spring forward,” as the saying goes, at 2 a.m. (ET). And while there are those who simply shrug and dutifully change their clocks in accordance with the practice, there are others who are hoping time’s up for daylight saving time.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Toronto aimed to find out whether pet dogs and working dogs need to take any time to manage the change. They used motion-sensitive watches to examine the activity patterns of 25 working sled dogs, 29 pet dogs, and their caregivers, during the weeks surrounding the clocks “falling back”.

In 1986, Congress amended the Uniform Time Act, changing the beginning of Daylight Saving Time from last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April, and having the end remain the last Sunday in October. These start and end dates were in effect from 1987 to 2006. The time was adjusted at 2 a.m. local time.

The Standard Time Act in 1918 was the first introduction of daylight saving time to American clocks. What was then a temporary measure, held the nickname 'war time,' and lasted from spring to fall in an attempt to cut energy costs during World War I. The act is also responsible for the five time zones still in place today.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) takes place each year on the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday in November. While we “spring forward” in March, in November, the clocks “fall back” and we gain an extra hour of sleep overnight.

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