# Clocks fall back Sunday as Senate stalls permanent DST

> Daylight saving time ends early Sunday, Nov. 1, and the Senate is unlikely to make it permanent this year despite President Trump's push, the AP reports.

By Subhajit | 2026-10-29 | Lifestyle | Savvy VibeZ
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## Key takeaways

- Daylight saving time ends early Sunday, Nov. 1, and most of the country turns clocks back one hour.
- The AP reports the Senate is unlikely to act on the House-passed permanent daylight saving time bill before the end of the year.
- Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas leads the opposition, and Sens. Mike Rounds and Bernie Moreno are also skeptical, per the AP.
- An AP-NORC poll last year found only 12% of U.S. adults favor the current twice-a-year system.

Set the clocks back one hour before bed on Saturday. Daylight saving time ends early Sunday, Nov. 1, and the Associated Press reports that the twice-a-year switch is not going away soon: the Senate is unlikely to pass a House-passed bill making daylight saving time permanent before the end of the year, even with President Donald Trump pressing for it.

## What is blocking the bill

According to the AP, several senators are holding up the legislation. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a member of Republican leadership, is the most vocal opponent. He has argued that Congress has enacted permanent daylight saving time before and repealed it once people met the "absurdly late sunrises" of winter.

He is not alone. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said, "You'd be sending kids to school in the dark." Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., called the House bill a "non-starter" for Senate Republican leaders, and Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told the AP there is "no way" it passes anytime soon. Senate Majority Leader John Thune hasn't commented publicly on the bill, the AP says, but he has voted against similar versions before.

## Trump's push

Earlier this month Trump posted Cotton's personal cellphone number online and told Arkansans to tell him to "GET IT DONE," the AP reported. This week he wrote on Truth Social that the Senate is letting the bill die. The AP says the pressure doesn't appear to have changed many votes, and several Republicans expect no vote in the short stretch after the Senate returns following the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

## Why people care

Supporters say permanent daylight saving time would mean more light in the afternoon, when Americans are most active. Opponents say that in some states commuters wouldn't see the sun until after 9 a.m. in winter. The AP notes Congress tried permanent daylight saving time in the winter of 1973 during an energy crisis, and repealed it by that October as support dropped.

Public opinion is lopsided, though. An AP-NORC poll last year found only 12% of U.S. adults favor the current system, while nearly half oppose it. The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine both back a single, fixed time, the AP reports.

## What to do this weekend

Phones, laptops and most smart TVs change on their own. The wall clock, the oven and the car dashboard usually don't, and those are the ones people forget until Monday. The extra hour of sleep is real, but the evenings get darker right away, so plan the dog walk or the kids' bike ride a little earlier.

## Our take

Nearly everyone agrees on one thing: nobody likes changing the clocks. The fight is over which time to keep, and that is a hard question when the sun rises at very different hours from Maine to Alaska. With the midterms five days away and a lame-duck calendar already crowded, this looks like another year of falling back, and probably springing forward again in March.

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Picture credit: Photo: Harry O. Hall, Library of Congress (public domain), cropped