What Time It Gets Dark Now That Clocks Have Fallen Back

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Daylight Saving Time officially ended at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1. Hopefully, you set your clocks back an hour; if not, you’re an hour ahead of everyone else.

That also means you’ll have to adjust your internal clock to earlier sunsets — in Metro Detroit, the sun sets at 5:27 p.m. on Sunday. By Nov. 30, the sun will set closer to 5 p.m. The days will continue getting shorter until the Winter Solstice on Dec. 22.

The shorter days and the end of Daylight Saving Time are associated with the beginning of the SAD (seasonal affected disorder) season, giving people less daylight to enjoy after they got off work. SAD is clinical form of depression that is believed to affect about 5 percent of the U.S. population.

Here’s a bonus for you sticklers for accuracy out there: Though many people refer to the day clocks move back as the end of Daylight Savings Time, it’s technically Daylight Saving Time – not a plural.

The end of Daylight Saving Time is also a good time to change the batteries in smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, and to test the devices to ensure that they are still working properly.

Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe Daylight Saving Time.