Clocks Fall Back in Dallas–Fort Worth on Sunday: Daylight Saving Time Ends at 2 A.M.
Halloween night runs an hour long this year. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, Dallas–Fort Worth turns its clocks back to 1 a.m. and returns to Central Standard Time - with earlier sunrises, earlier sunsets, and one extra hour overnight.
Dallas–Fort Worth gets its hour back this weekend. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, when clocks are turned backward one hour to 1 a.m. local standard time, according to timeanddate's Dallas County listing. Because Halloween falls on Saturday, the change lands overnight between Saturday and Sunday - trick-or-treat night is followed by the longest night of the fall.
The trade is light for time. Sunrise and sunset both come about an hour earlier on the clock from Sunday onward: more light in the morning, less in the evening. The station's live weather feed puts Sunday at a high of 79.3 degrees and a low of 63.1 under morning fog, with rain chances at 7 percent - a mild first day of standard time. Phones and computers change themselves; ovens, microwaves and car clocks are the ones that wait for a hand.
Standard time is also the clock Election Day runs on. Polls in Dallas and Tarrant Counties open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, Central Standard Time - the hours are unchanged, but every voter's phone will already have made the switch two days earlier. Under the federal schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time runs from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November; it returns on March 14, 2027, in the spring.
