TIME HAS COME TODAY: What time does daylight saving time start? What is it? When to ‘spring forward’ this weekend.

This Sunday, the majority of Americans will “spring forward” and set their clocks ahead an hour, losing an hour of sleep as the annual tradition of daylight saving time begins for the year.

Daylight saving time will end for 2024 in November, when we set our clocks back and gain an extra hour of sleep.

The time adjustment affects the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, prompting clock changes, contributing to less sleep in the days following and, of course, later sunsets.

Those disruptions may have contributed to public sentiment souring on the time change in recent years, but legislative moves to do away with daylight saving time have stalled in Congress.

Even ahead of the time change on Sunday, there are already cities in every continental U.S. time zone that are reporting sunset times after 6 p.m. as the Earth and the Northern Hemisphere begins its tilt toward the sun and summer approaches.

Here’s everything you need to know about the start of daylight saving time.

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