Daylight Saving Time falls this Halloween

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - It’s that time of year where the leaves are changing, and so are our clocks.

Saturday night, during your Halloween festivities, trick or treating, or sugar crashes, make sure to turn your clocks back by an hour.

Currently, only two U.S. states l don’t recognize daylight-saving time-- Arizona and Hawaii. President Donald Trump is among the latest to try and change that.

“It’s a stupid thing. It actually costs a lot of money. You know, when you add up the whole United States and what it’s through, and everyone hates it, and the Senate should vote it out and go back to one time and no more changing your clock,” President Trump said.

North Dakotan Skyler Strand agrees with the President.

“It allows me to go for more walks and activity in the night and the evening and just get to enjoy being outside a little bit longer, especially being up here in North Dakota. It’s, you know, you want to be outside as long as you can up here,” Strand said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said there didn’t seem to be a clear path ahead in his chamber because of opposition by senators from states where winter sunrises would happen well into rush hour or force kids to walk to school bus stops in the dark.

This year, the U.S. House said ‘yes’ to permanent daylight-saving time, but the Senate went into recess ahead of the midterm elections. That means despite President Trump’s effort, they won’t get to the bill before this fall’s time change. So, at 2 a.m. Nov. 1, the clocks will still fall back to 1 a.m.

Unlike some places, those who are celebrating at the bars in Bismarck should know they won’t be open for an extra hour by law.

“When I was up in, I went to school at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and it would always happen that you get an extra hour being outside or being at the bar an extra hour. That was the benefit of having daylight savings time, I guess, as a college kid then,” Strand said.

This year, daylight saving time comes to an end on Halloween. This is also a year when Halloween falls on a Saturday. The next Saturday Halloween won’t happen until 2037.

Congress made a similar move in the 1970s, but it was so unpopular they switched it.