As Texas prepares for more winter weather, daylight saving time is something to look forward to. See the dates for time changes and solstices in 2025.

Here's when daylight savings time starts and ends this year and what would happen around the country if it ends permanently in 2025.

While most states follow the biannual practice, Arizona — with the exception of the Navajo Nation — and Hawaii do not partake in daylight saving time. The U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands also forgo the twice-yearly changing of the clocks.

A bill that would do away with the twice-yearly time change is back in the U.S. Senate, with backing from Alabama Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt.

U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act on Jan. 8, 2025, bringing back the proposal to end the time changes. Permanent Daylight Saving Time would become the standard across the country.

In March, millions of Americans will turn their clocks forward, marking the start of daylight saving time in 2025. The controversial practice of "springing forward" and "falling back" has been observed in most states for decades.

According to TimeAndDate.com, daylight saving time will start on Sunday, March 9, this year. Clocks will “spring forward,” as the saying goes, at 2 a.m. (ET). And while there are those who simply shrug and dutifully change their clocks in accordance with the practice, there are others who are hoping time’s up for daylight saving time.

We’re still in the dark, cold days of winter but take heart. Spring – and the time change – is just around the corner.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s cold and dark out there, for sure. But, the darkest day of winter is now a few weeks behind us, so we can look, quite literally, on the bright side: Each day since Dec. 21, 2024 will be lighter for longer, at least for a while.

Opinions on clock-switching are varied — stop springing forward, spring forward permanently or keep the system as is?

State Sens. Mike Jacobson and Teresa Ibach say they’ll seek to ensure that a year-round standard time bill wouldn’t put four counties an hour behind their Colorado and Nebraska neighbors.