Need more sunlight, Kansas City? Here’s when daylight saving time begins this spring
Kansas City’s ready for some extra sunlight after the results of Super Bowl LIX, but it’ll come at the cost of an hour of sleep.
Kansas City area residents on both sides of the state line will lose an hour of sleep on Sunday, March 9, as daylight saving time starts. Also known as “spring forward,” the yearly time change means turning the clock one hour forward.
Here’s what you should know before the time changes.
When is daylight saving time?
At 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9, clocks will skip forward to 3 a.m. Starting on this day, sunrise and sunset will be one hour later. That means that on March 9, the sun will rise in Kansas City at 7:38 a.m. and set at 7:19 p.m.
Daylight saving time comes to an end in fall 2025. At 2 a.m., on Sunday, Nov. 2, clocks will “fall back” one hour to 1 a.m. The sun will rise and set earlier, too.
Hawaii and Arizona are the only states that do not observe daylight saving time, except for the Navajo Nation located in Arizona.
Didn’t the federal government get rid of daylight saving time?
In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021. Introduced by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the act would institute permanent daylight saving time if passed. However, the bill has stagnated in the U.S. House of Representatives, so it has not been enacted.
Nineteen other states have passed their own laws to enact permanent daylight saving time, although Kansas and Missouri are not among them. However, these state laws can’t go into effect without federal approval.
