Saturday is the shortest day of the year. Will 2025 have summer time?

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Saturday the 21st of December it is winter solstice. It is the shortest day of the year and starts the coldest season. The good news is that if you start on the longest night of the year, the days automatically start to get longer, with just a little more sun slowly coming back until our longest day in June.

Winter runs through the vernal equinox on March 20, 2025.

Every year, summer time begins on the second Sunday in March and lasts through November. Supporters say it cuts energy costs and adds more productive daylight hours to the calendar. But some health experts say that the change twice a year is hard on our body.

“Spring Forward” is set for Sunday, March 9, 2025. After losing an hour of sleep, people will have a later sunrise and sunset until fall. The return to standard time, or “fall back”, is set for Sunday, November 2.

But will we get daylight saving time this year? President-elect Donald Trump has promised to get rid of it. The timeline for when or if that might happen is not clear.

What did Trump say about daylight savings time?

“The Republican Party will do its best to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, which has a small but powerful constituency, but shouldn’t!” he wrote on his social media Truth Social. “Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very expensive for our nation.”

The GOP has majority control in the House and Senate, and changes to daylight saving time must be passed by Congress.

A move to use only summer time in 1974 failed after parents worried about children going to school before dawn and risking more car accidents.

More: Winter Solistice is here in Mississippi. What is it and what does it mean?

Does Mississippi keep daylight saving time?

Yes. Mississippi, which is in the Central Time Zone, observes Daylight Saving Time.

Which states remain on standard time?

Most of the United States participates in daylight saving time except for Hawaii and most of Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates and accounts for parts of the northeastern corner of the state.

Reporting by Cheryl V. Jackson, Joey Garrison, Jeanine Santucci and contributed to this report.