When is daylight saving time 2025? Here’s when sunset will be in NH when

The darkest days of winter are officially behind us with sunsets again after 5 p.m. in the New England. So is daylight saving time almost here?

We will “spring forward” in just a few weeks when daylight saving time goes into effect in early March.

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When is Daylight Saving Time?

Daylight saving time will begin on March 9, 2025. That day, most Americans will lose an hour of sleep when the clocks turn forward one hour at 2 a.m. When we spring forward, sunrise will be at 7:05 a.m. and sunset will be at 6:42 p.m. in Portsmouth.

It will end on Nov 2.

The islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard at sunset as seen from an airliner heading to Boston at 20,000 feet on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. — The islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard at sunset as seen from an airliner heading to Boston at 20,000 feet on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.

What is Daylight Saving Time?

Daylight saving time is an annual time change lasting from March until November to gain more daylight in the summer evenings.

It was first enacted by the federal government in 1918 as a fuel cost-saving measure during World War I by adding an extra hour of sunlight to the day, according to the Library of Congress.

It became federal law in 1966, when it was established from the last Sunday of April through the last Sunday of October.

In 2007, daylight saving time was extended to its present form, where the clocks spring forward from the second Sunday in March through the first Sunday of November.

All U.S. states but Arizona and Hawaii observe daylight saving time.

Will Trump end daylight saving time?

European daylight saving time end. Alarm clock on wooden desk, blur spring nature background, copy space. 3d illustration

Some Americans dislike the biyearly time shifts, and lawmakers have made efforts in the past to change it. In 2022, the US Senate unanimously approved an act to make daylight saving time permanent, but it did not pass the House.

In December, President Donald Trump said he would put an end to daylight saving time altogether.

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wrote in a Dec. 13 Truth Social post. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”

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The 2022 attempt to make Daylight Saving Time permanent was a bi-partisan effort.

However, nothing has changed yet, so make sure to still switch your clocks on March 9.

Contributing: Seth Jacobson

This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Daylight saving time: When does the time change in 2025?

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