Daylight Savings Time 2024: Spring Forward Time Change

If you are asking, “When do we turn clocks back in 2024?” The answer is the date that Daylight Saving Time (DST) will begin for Florida is at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

The rest of the United States will move their clocks forward on March 10, 2024, with the exception of Hawaii and Arizona because those states do not practice Daylight Savings Time.

Daylight Savings Time 2024 begins before Easter when days become longer and longer heading closer to the Spring Equinox.

This means that we lose (not gain) an hour when we turn our clocks ahead an hour to 3:00 a.m. when our clocks reach 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.

A helpful way to remember whether to set our clocks ahead or behind one hour during the Daylight Saving Time change for Spring 2024 is to “Fall Back” and “Spring Ahead.”

Is Florida stopping Daylight Savings time?

Former Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill into law to put an end to the practice of setting clocks back and forward every six months.

Now as a U.S. Senator, Scott along with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) reintroduced the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act, to end the twice-yearly time change and make Daylight Saving Time the national year-round standard. 

But both the Senate and House versions of the Sunshine Protection Act remain in committee.

So Florida still has to wait along with the rest of the country for the U.S. Congress to approve remaining on Daylight Saving Time throughout the year.

When Does Daylight Saving Time Begin?

Daylight Saving Time will begin again on Sunday, March 14, 2021.

History of Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time started in Europe during World War I as a way to economize fuel usage. The United States started Daylight Saving Time a year after WWI ended in 1918.

Benjamin Franklin did not propose Daylight Saving Time. This misconception grew out of the proverb “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” that was published in Franklin’s Poor Richards’ Almanac.

How to Correctly Spell Daylight Saving Time

Is it “Daylight Savings Time” or “Daylight Saving Time”? The correct term is without the “s” but the added “s” has become widely used in the United States.

Daylight Saving Time Bad For Your Health

Losing an hour of sleep is bad for your health, studies find. The overall rate for stroke was 8% higher and heart attacks 10% higher in the days following the daylight saving time change.