Daylight Saving Time Ends Tonight: San Antonio Clocks Fall Back at 2 A.M., and the 1 O'Clock Hour Happens Twice
At 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, clocks turn back one hour to 1 a.m. as the city returns to Central Standard Time — an extra hour of sleep tonight, an earlier sunset tomorrow, and a House-passed bill to end the twice-yearly change still waiting in the Senate.
San Antonio gets its hour back tonight. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, when clocks across most of the United States are set back one hour and the country returns to standard time, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's rules as reported this weekend. At that moment 2 a.m. becomes 1 a.m. again, so the hour between 1 and 2 a.m. happens twice — anyone setting a manual clock can simply turn it back one hour before going to bed Saturday night, while phones and computers update themselves.
The trade is the familiar one: an extra hour of sleep tonight, and earlier sunsets through the fall and winter, starting with Sunday evening. Under the schedule in place since 2007, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November; it is scheduled to return on Sunday, March 14, 2027. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe the change and will not move their clocks this weekend.
The twice-yearly switch may not be permanent. The U.S. House passed the Sunshine Protection Act in July by a vote of 308 to 117, legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, but the Senate has not voted on it and no change has been enacted into law, the weekend reporting says — so tonight's fall-back happens on the current schedule, and San Antonio wakes up Sunday on Central Standard Time.
