This weekend’s US clock change is a problem, and there’s a deep divide on how to fix it

Photo credit: Jon Tyson via Unsplash. Article by Geoff Mulvihill. AP News – updated March 6, 2026.

Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S., creating a 23-hour day that throws off sleep schedules, plunges early-morning dog walks into darkness and inspires millions of complaints. Even though polls show most people dislike the system that has most Americans changing clocks twice a year, the political moves necessary to change the system haven’t succeeded because opinions on the issue and its potential impacts are sharply divided. […]

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