Time Zone & Clock Changes in Los Angeles, California, USA (2024)

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What states are getting rid of daylight savings time? ›

Nearly a dozen states have legislation in the works to switch to year-round standard time: Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Oregon, whose Senate voted Monday in favor of a bill that would end daylight saving time.

Mar 10, 2024 - Daylight Saving Time Started

Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead. Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 10, 2024 than the day before. There was more light in the evening and less light in the morning.

Daylight saving time will begin for 2024 on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time, when our clocks will go ahead one hour, part of the twice-annual time change that affects millions, but not all, Americans.

In November 2018, Californians overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to allow the Legislature to change the daylight saving time period. But the measure didn't actually end it. There have been several failed attempts since then to abolish the time change by making daylight saving time permanent.

If clock changes were abolished, what would happen first? We'd reduce schedule disruptions and wouldn't have to remember which clocks auto-update. Without losing an hour of sleep in March, you'd probably wake up feeling more refreshed and less tired than on that same weekend in past years.

Mar 8, 2026 - Daylight Saving Time Starts

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later on Mar 8, 2026 than the day before. There will be more light in the evening and less light in the morning. Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.

This shift reduces the need for artificial lighting in the evenings and decreases energy consumption, promoting energy conservation and allowing us to advantage of longer daylight periods during spring and summer.

California uses Pacific Standard Time (PST) during standard time and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) during Daylight Saving Time (DST). California shares its time zone and DST schedule with bordering states Oregon and Nevada.

Dozens of states continue to consider proposals to adopt either permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time. Yet, no states have adopted a legislative change since 2022. Without new movement on proposed changes, Americans should expect clock changes to continue into 2024.

What time is it in California just now? ›

San Francisco, after all, is more than five degrees' longitude west of San Diego. Our eastern border with Arizona is more than 10 degrees east of our northwest corner. These distances mean that even though California is one time zone, it's not really the same time wherever you are in California.

Exceptions include Arizona (except for the Navajo, who do observe daylight saving time in the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

In the early 1970s, America was facing an energy crisis so the government tried an experiment. Congress passed a law to make Daylight Savings Time permanent year round, but just for two years. The thinking was more sunlight in the evening would reduce the nation's energy consumption.

According to the online museum WebExhibits, the 2 a.m. change was also a convenient middle ground between midnight—when changing the clocks would require the date switching back to the previous day—and later in the morning, when early shift workers and churchgoers might be affected.

The Texas House Votes to Permanently Stay on Daylight Saving Time. In April 2023, In House Bill 1422, by a vote of 138-5, the Texas Legislature said goodbye to changing your clocks twice a year.

DST was reinstated again in World War II and then brought back permanently in 1966. Arizona tried it out, but ultimately decided DST wasn't for desert dwellers — more sunlight in the evening means more air conditioning, more energy used, more misery… we'll pass.

Attempts to do away with the time change in North Carolina have so far been unsuccessful. Currently, states are allowed to pass laws making standard time permanent, but they cannot adopt year-round daylight saving time without congressional authorization.

Most of Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time, except for 12 counties in northwest and southwest Indiana that have remained or changed to Central Standard Time. According to the Indiana General Assembly, a bill exempting Indiana from daylight saving time was introduced into the assembly for the 2024 session.