Is the time change this weekend? When to change clocks in North Carolina

The end of daylight saving time is around the corner. It's not this Sunday, but the next -- Nov. 1 -- that you'll have to set your clock back. You may have noticed that North Carolina mornings are getting darker and darker. Sunrises have been moving a minute or two back every day. On Oct. 31, the su

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What is the story about?

The end of daylight saving time is around the corner. It's not this Sunday, but the next -- Nov. 1 -- that you'll have to set your clock back.

You may have noticed that North Carolina mornings are getting darker and darker. Sunrises have been moving a minute or two back every day. On Oct. 31, the sun won't come up until 7:30 a.m.

That will change when daylight saving time ends on Nov. 1 at 2 a.m. The official time will jump one hour back to 1 a.m. -- giving an extra hour of sleep, if you choose to think about it like that.

The sunrise that day will occur at 6:30 a.m. -- one hour earlier. The change will also push sunsets back an hour. The total amount of daylight will stay fixed, but the clock change will simply move that daylight to different

times on the clock.

When is daylight saving time? When does it end?

Daylight saving time runs from March 8 to Nov. 1, 2026. You may have heard the seasonal play on words of "spring forward" in March and "fall back" in November.

The Nov. 1 shift occurs at 2 a.m., pushing the time back to 1 a.m. Most immediately, it gives you an extra hour of sleep. But it also makes sunrises and sunsets happen earlier in the winter months.

Will Trump end daylight saving time?

The president has made it clear he supports permanently ending daylight saving time and doing away with the annual clock changes.

The Sunshine Protection Act -- a bill that would do just that -- was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. However, the Senate hasn't voted on it, and the deadline to do so before Nov. 1 has passed. This means Americans should prepare to set their clocks back.