(Region) – The end of Daylight Saving Time takes place early Sunday morning. We’ll turn the clocks back an hour, and in return (in theory), we get and extra hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time (DST), sometimes incorrectly called by the plural Daylight Savings Time, concludes at 2 a.m. local time, on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021.

The number of daylight hours will continue to get shorter until the winter solstice starts on Dec. 21st.  Afterward, the length of days will then begin to increase until the summer solstice on June 21, 2022. But the days will actually begin to feel a bit longer two weeks before the solstice. That’s because the earliest sunset of the year happens before the solstice, and in 2021, it occurs on Tuesday, December 7.

The changeover to Standard Time (CST) is usually when fire officials recommend changing your smoke detector batteries, which typically last about six-months.