Winter is winding down as the sun sets later each day, but nothing says spring like the day we spring the clocks forward. Under the current daylight saving period, most Americans will lose an hour on the second Sunday of March and gain an hour on the first Sunday of November.

Daylight Saving Time was initiated as an energy-saving measure in World War I and then again in World War II. Permanent daylight-saving time was briefly enacted by President Richard Nixon in 1974 following the 1973 oil embargo crisis.

As January draws to an end, Texas can look forward to daylight saving time as an indication of spring. Here's why President Trump may end it.

"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social in 2024. "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient,