Despite the fact that the Georgia General Assembly passed a bill last March adopting year-round daylight saving time won’t take effect unless and until Congress makes the change at the national level.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill called the “Sunshine Act” that would allow states to opt out of the time change, but the U.S. House has not passed the bill.  So that means come Sunday, November 6th at 2 AM Eastern Time – we will once again “fall back”

Not every state changes the time back and forth – Arizona and Hawaii don’t participate in the twice-a-year ritual that dates back to World War I when Congress passed the time change as a way to conserve energy to assist the war effort.  The practice was made permanent in 1973 when Congress passed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act.  In 2005, the Uniform Time Act tweaked that schedule by setting the start of daylight saving time to the second Sunday of March and the end on the first Sunday of November.