--- title: When Does Daylight Savings Time End? description: Spring forward, fall back canonical: https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T17:32:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:27.222Z og:title: Here's When Daylight Saving Time Ends og:description: Spring forward, fall back og:url: https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e3b903cbcdcf0c8/698782a9cd1bbaa2c36f5951/clock.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Alarm clock daylight savings og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's When Daylight Saving Time Ends twitter:description: Spring forward, fall back twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e3b903cbcdcf0c8/698782a9cd1bbaa2c36f5951/clock.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's When Daylight Saving Time Ends by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 29, 2015 5:32 PM UTC  Alarm clock Alarm clockGetty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 29, 2015 5:32 PM UTC [Daylight Saving Time](http://time.com/3734218/daylight-saving-time-spring-forward/) ends in the U.S. at 2 a.m. E.T. on Sunday, Nov. 1\. That’s when clocks will be set back one hour, after they were set forward one hour for the start of Daylight Saving Time on March 8. That means an extra hour of sleep before waking up on Sunday morning. It will also mean lighter mornings—but darker evenings. This applies for almost all of the U.S.—Arizona and Hawaii have opted out of Daylight Saving Time. The history of Daylight Saving Time is, and remains, [complicated](http://time.com/3717487/daylight-saving-time-1923/): It had informally existed in Ancient Egypt and had even been suggested by Ben Franklin. [Read more about it here](http://time.com/3734218/daylight-saving-time-spring-forward/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/"},"headline":"Here's When Daylight Saving Time Ends","datePublished":"2015-10-29T17:32:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:27.222Z","description":"Spring forward, fall back","url":"https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","daylight saving time"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e3b903cbcdcf0c8/698782a9cd1bbaa2c36f5951/clock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e3b903cbcdcf0c8/698782a9cd1bbaa2c36f5951/clock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alarm clock daylight savings","caption":"Alarm clock daylight savings","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4093074/daylight-savings-time-end/","name":"Here's When Daylight Saving Time Ends"}}]}] ```