Daylight Saving 2022: When Do Clocks Spring Forward In NY?

NEW YORK — Just when it was starting to get lighter earlier in the mornings, it will soon be time to spring forward in New York.

Daylight saving time is just around the corner. This year, it begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13, which means later sunsets, longer-seeming days and the biannual hassle of changing the time on old-school clocks.

For those who don't know, daylight saving time is the practice of setting clocks forward one hour from standard time in the spring, and back again in the fall, in order to make better use of natural daylight.

New York is among the 48 states that — often begrudgingly — observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and Arizona don't observe the practice, although the Navajo Nation in the Grand Canyon State does.

But it's not a popular practice across the country. Americans by a 63 percent to 16 percent margin favoring ditching daylight saving time altogether, according to a recent Economic/YouGov poll.

The reasons the United States observes daylight saving are arguably absurd — as outlined in this video.

Bills in Albany have been introduced to make daylight saving time year-round, but they never seem to get out of committee.

So, daylight saving time remains a thing in New York. And you've been warned.

Patch writers Adam Nichols and Matt Troutman contributed to this report.