Is daylight saving time ending permanently? Not yet. Here's when to set your clocks back

The sun has already started setting earlier, a sign of the impending autumn season.

No matter how strongly you might feel about it, daylight saving time will come to an end in just a couple months. Here's what to know about the changing of the clocks this fall, and how the practice came about.

When do we 'fall back' in 2023?

The clocks will "fall back" on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, at 2 a.m., marking the end of daylight saving time for the year and bringing us back to Standard Time.

That night, we will gain an hour of sleep. But, the sun will start setting an hour earlier.

The day before the clocks are set back, the sun will set about 6:30 p.m. in Oklahoma. The next day, the sun will set at about 5:29 p.m.

When does daylight saving time begin in 2024?

In 2024, daylight saving time will begin at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10 and end for the year at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3.

Why do we have daylight saving time?

Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clock forward one hour in the spring to have the sunrise and sunset at a more reasonable hour.

The Uniform Time Act established nationwide standards for the observance of daylight saving time when it was signed into law in 1966. Before that, there was a patchwork of standards as municipalities and states chose whether or not to observe the practice.

The practice, at least according to Encyclopedia Britannica, was first suggested in an essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784.

The first true proponent of daylight saving time, however, was an English builder named William Willet. In 1907, he published a pamphlet called "The Waste of Daylight" that campaigned for advancing clocks in spring and turning them back in fall, according to the National Museum of Scotland. Willet also encouraged people to get out of bed earlier in the summer to make the most of daylight.

"Everyone appreciates the long light evenings," Willett wrote in the pamphlet. "Everyone laments their shrinkage as autumn approaches, and nearly everyone has given utterance to a regret that the clear bright light of early morning during spring and summer months, is so seldom seen or used. Nevertheless, standard time remains so fixed, that for nearly half the year the sun shines upon the land, for several hours each day while we are asleep."

Are we getting rid of daylight saving time?

The US Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022 and reintroduced it in 2023.

But the US House has yet to consider the bill that would permanently extend daylight saving time from just eight months to the entire year.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Is daylight savings ending in Oklahoma? See law, when to change clocks