If you’re asking, “When do we turn clocks back in 2025?” the answer is that Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends for Florida—and most of the United States—at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2025. At that moment, clocks will “fall back” one hour to 1 a.m., meaning we gain an hour of sleep as daylight shifts earlier in the day. Most of the U.S. follows this fall shift, except for Hawaii and most of Arizona (the Navajo Nation in Arizona does observe DST), since those states skip Daylight Saving Time entirely. The change occurs after Halloween, as days grow shorter heading toward the Winter Solstice. A simple way to remember it is “Spring Ahead, Fall Back.” Could Florida Skip the Fall Time Change? In 2018, then-Governor Rick Scott signed the Sunshine State Protection Act, aiming to make DST permanent in Florida and eliminate the biannual clock adjustments—including the fall back shift. However, this state law remains on hold, as federal law (the Uniform Time Act of 1966) requires congressional approval for states to adopt year-round DST. Without it, states can only choose permanent standard time. Now a U.S. Senator, Rick Scott, alongside Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), is pushing for a nationwide fix. On January 7, 2025, Scott introduced the Sunshine Protection Act (S. 29) in the 119th Congress (2025-2026), with Rubio as a co-sponsor. A matching House bill, H.R. 139, was filed by Representative Vern Buchanan on January 3, 2025. If passed, these bills would lock the U.S. into permanent DST, scrapping the fall time change starting in 2026. As of October 2025, both bills are stuck in committee—S. 29 in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and H.R. 139 in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. No votes are scheduled yet, and there has been no new movement on the legislation this year. The legislation passed the Senate unanimously in 2022 but didn’t make it through the House. Unless Congress acts before November 2, 2025, Florida and most of the U.S. will still fall back as usual this year, The Palm Beach Post reports. Trump On Changing Daylight Saving Time 2025 In December 2024, President Donald Trump announced that he wants to end the practice of changing clocks for Daylight Saving Time in the United States. But when speaking to reporters from the Oval Office in March 2025, Trump was ambivalent on changing Daylight Saving Time. "It's a 50/50 issue and if something is a 50/50 issue, it's hard to get excited about it," said Trump. "I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark... A lot of people like it one way. A lot of people like it the other way." In April 2025, Trump urged Congress to pass legislation making DST permanent, stating it would provide more daylight at the end of the day and end the clock changes. As of October 2025, he continues to express support for ending the biannual changes, though he notes public opinion is divided. When Does Daylight Saving Time End? Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2 a.m., when clocks fall back to 1 a.m. History of Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time, including its fall back tradition, started in Europe during World War I to save fuel and was adopted by the U.S. in 1918. Benjamin Franklin is often wrongly credited with the idea due to his saying, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” from Poor Richard’s Almanac. In reality, he had no hand in DST. Is It “Daylight Savings” or “Daylight Saving”? The correct term is “Daylight Saving Time” (no “s”), though “Daylight Savings Time” is a common slip-up in American English. Daylight Saving Time Bad For Your Health While gaining an hour in the fall is generally easier on the body than losing one in spring, the biannual shifts can still disrupt sleep patterns. Studies link DST changes overall to increased risks of health issues, including a spike in accidents and mood disturbances in the days following the transitions.