You’ll soon lose an hour due to daylight saving. Didn’t Kansas try to end the practice?

Daylight saving time will start at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 12, when Kansas residents should “spring forward” and move their clocks ahead one hour.

The new season officially begins Monday, March 20, and Wichita area residents can expect some spring showers in the coming days.

But will Kansas put an end to the tradition of changing clocks twice a year? Here’s what to know.

Daylight saving legislation in Kansas, nationwide

Kansas legislators introduced a bill to exempt the state from daylight saving time in 2019, but it died in committee in 2020.

In 2021, Kansas lawmakers tried another route by introducing House Bill 2060, which would make daylight saving time permanent in the state. This bill died in May 2022.

These recent bills were far from the only effort to end clock-changing, and the U.S. Senate has signed off on similar legislation for the nation. But so far, Hawaii and Arizona are the only states in the country that don’t observe daylight saving time, and the Navajo Nation portion of Arizona does practice daylight saving.

History of daylight saving

The original daylight saving law passed the U.S. Congress in 1918, and state governments were left with the decision to keep or scrap it after World War I, CNBC reports.

The Uniform Time Act was passed in 1966 and requires state governments that choose to observe daylight saving to begin and end the practice on federally determined dates.

“Under the Uniform Time Act, States may choose to exempt themselves from observing Daylight Saving Time by State law,” the U.S. Department of Transportation website reads. “States do not have the authority to choose to be on permanent Daylight Saving Time.”

This year’s daylight saving time will end at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5.