The weekend’s here. The U. S. Department of Transportation is lending you an extra hour —- until spring that is.
Daylight Saving Time officially ends Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 a.m. Since it is fall, clocks will be moved back one hour at that time.
According to NIST, a physical measurement laboratory that serves as one of the United State’s official timekeepers, “daylight saving time and time zones are regulated by the U. S. Department of Transportation … as an official timekeeper for the United States, NIST observes all rules regarding DST when it distributes time-of-day information to the public.”
Daylight Saving Time currently begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the Second Sunday in November. According to NIST, that is a period of 238 days. The effect is essentially creating an extra hour of daylight during typical workday hours, with the goal of saving energy.
