Daylight Saving 2022: When Do Clocks Spring Forward In Ohio?

OHIO — Just as winter’s grip on Ohio loosens, and the days grow longer, it will soon be time to spring forward in the Buckeye State.

The “spring forward” will give Ohioans an extra hour of daylight. This year, daylight savings time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13, which means later sunsets, longer-seeming days and the biannual hassle of changing the time on old-school clocks.

Some Ohio lawmakers are urging the federal government to eliminate all the clock changing and keep daylight savings time year round.

“No matter what we do, there are still 24 hours in each day and the tilt of the earth still changes the length of time the sun shines in each season,” said state Rep. Kyle Koehler, a Republican from Springfield. “Permanently transitioning to DST will only save Ohioans’ from the unnecessary disruption of changing our clocks twice a year.”

For those who don’t know, daylight saving time is the practice of setting clocks forward one hour from standard time in the spring, and back again in the fall, in order to make better use of natural daylight.

Ohio is among the 48 states that — often begrudgingly — observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and Arizona don’t observe the practice, although the Navajo Nation in the Grand Canyon State does.

But it’s not a popular practice across the country. Americans by a 63 percent to 16 percent margin favoring ditching daylight saving time altogether, according to a recent Economic/YouGov poll.

The reasons the United States observes daylight saving are arguably absurd — as outlined in this video.

In 2020, Ohio lawmakers passed a resolution urging the federal government to adopt year-round daylight savings time, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. If the bill was passed, Ohioans could forget about “springing forward” or “falling back” ever again.