Any move to permanent DST requires national-level approval in the USA.
Because recent permanent DST bills have stalled in the US Congress, there have been more recent efforts to focus on a move to permanent standard time instead. Any move to year-round standard time does not require national-level approval.
There is a collective drive for permanent standard time (in the US and Canada) from British Columbia, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Other states in the US are also making moves at a state level to make standard time permanent.
Most of Mexico doesn’t have DST. The North American country chose to remove DST permanently in October 2022. However, the change caused both confusion and problems along the US border.
Northern Mexican border towns, such as Tijuana and Juárez (Ciudad Juárez), align their times with the DST schedules of the USA and Canada and will also end DST on November 3, 2024.
DST will also end on November 3 in Cuba, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Thule Air Base, officially known as Pituffik Space Base since 2023, in Greenland.
Upcoming DST changes worldwide
Daylight Saving Time (DST) shifts the local sunrise and sunset times forward one hour, resulting in more evening daylight. To remember which way to set your watch, keep in mind one of these sayings: “spring forward, fall back” or “spring ahead, fall behind.”
The clocks spring ahead (= losing one hour) in the spring when DST starts, and they fall behind one hour (= gaining one hour) when DST ends in the fall.