The end of Daylight Saving Time for 2022 has finally arrived. While many people are sleeping tonight, the clock will “fall back” one hour as Daylight Saving Time concludes at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.

The sun will set in Newark at 5:48 p.m. on Saturday. The following day — after Daylight Saving time ends — sunset is more than an hour earlier at 4:47 p.m.

The amount of daylight will continue to lessen each day until Dec. 21 when the winter solstice arrives. Then the length of days will begin to increase until the summer solstice on June 21, 2023.

The flip side is that the sun will rise approximately one hour earlier each morning. On Saturday sunrise is 7:32 a.m. The next day the sun comes up at 6:33 a.m. So while millions of people will travel home from work mostly or entirely in the dark in November, their morning commute will include more daylight.

What time do we turn back the clocks?

Clocks officially “fall back” at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November to 1 a.m.

When did Daylight Saving Time start and when will it end in 2022?

Daylight Saving Time started on Sunday, March 13, 2022 and will end on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022 — a run of 238 days. It has lasted from the second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November since 2007.

When does Daylight Saving Time start and end in 2023?

We next turn the clocks ahead on March 12, 2023 — 126 days after turning them back. Daylight Saving Time in 2023 will end on Nov. 5, 2023.

What is the history of Daylight Saving Time?

The concept dates back more than a century when English architect William Willett proposed the idea to change the clocks in 1907 in The Waste of Daylight. The suggestion of using daylight more efficiently can be traced to Benjamin Franklin.

While visiting in Paris in 1784, he wrote a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris calling for a tax on every Parisian whose windows were shuttered after sunrise to “encourage the economy of using sunshine instead of candles,” according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.

What states don’t observe Daylight Saving Time?

Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe Daylight Saving Time. The time change is also not observed in U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Seventeen states have enacted legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Voters in California have voted to authorize year-round Daylight Saving Time. Those changes, however, require federal approval.

In March, the U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would end changing the clocks twice a year. The bill remains stalled in the U.S. House of Representatives, though.

A handful of provinces in Canada — most of Saskatchewan and Yukon have adopted permanent daylight saving as has parts of British Columbia and two communities in northwest Ontario.

About 70 countries observe Daylight Saving Time. Most of North America, Europe and parts of South America and New Zealand adhere to it,