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NYC Daylight Saving Time 2022: Here's When To Fall Back

Mark your calendars, sleepyheads — you'll get an extra hour of slumber Nov. 6.

The New York City skyline is seen during sunset on day five of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 2 in Flushing.
The New York City skyline is seen during sunset on day five of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 2 in Flushing. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

NEW YORK CITY — Sleep-deprived New Yorkers soon will fall back into an extra hour of slumber.

Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 a.m., meaning clocks will go back one hour.

But while that means a day of guilt-free sleeping in, it also comes with a cost: earlier sunsets through the dark winter months.

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New York is among the 48 states — besides Arizona and Hawaii — that observe daylight saving time.

The practice of resetting clocks in the spring and fall isn't exactly popular among Americans, to put it mildly.

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A Monmouth University poll this year found only 35 percent of people surveyed want to keep clock changes.

And they're not wrong in thinking daylight saving is arguably absurd — as this video outlines, the reasons behind the practice have little to do with farmers and a lot to do with Kaiser Wilhelm.

Pointy-helmeted, long-dead German monarchs aside, New Yorkers soon still have to set their clocks back. At least they'll get an hour of extra sleep in the deal.

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