Daylight Saving Time 2015: When do clocks go back in the U.S.?

(© Brian Snyder / Reuters)Scott Gow adjusts a tower clock on test at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Massachusetts March 6, 2009.

Summer is officially over in the United States and with that in mind, people are now searching the Internet to find out when this year's Daylight Saving Time will end. Luckily, many reports have surfaced pointing out that people can set back their clocks next month. 

According to Christian Today's report, time is set to go back to normal on Nov. 1 at exactly 2 a.m. when people can adjust their clocks backward an hour to 1 a.m.  

This, of course, only applies to the states in the U.S. that practice Daylight Saving Time. There are places like Hawaii as well as majority of areas in Arizona that do not have DST. 

As for other countries that also practice Daylight Saving Time, Australia is said to start their DST this weekend, on the first Sunday of October at 2 a.m., and the time on their clocks gets moved an hour forward since the country is now heading to spring. 

Meanwhile, DST is also practiced in Europe and Examiner reports that its end in the region is much earlier as opposed to that in the United States. The time on their clocks will return to normal on Oct. 25 at 3 a.m. — their DST started on March 29, which was also a Sunday. 

To people who are not very familiar with how Daylight Saving Time works, there is a saying,"Fall back, Spring forward." This phrase can certainly come in handy especially to those who are unfamiliar with this biannual practice. 

As briefly explained on Christian Today, this practice of turning the clock forward and backward was implemented by congress to help support the Energy Policy Act of 2005.  

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