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Halloween marks Seattle's last sunset after 5pm this year
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Local trick-or-treaters will have daylight until nearly 6pm Saturday — but we'll all be back to pre-5pm sunsets starting Sunday.
Zoom in: The sun in Seattle will set at 5:51pm on Halloween, giving revelers a little more time before night falls.
- The end of daylight saving time early Sunday morning, however, will roll Sunday night's sunset back to 4:51pm.
The big picture: The annual ritual of setting our clocks back an hour, or "falling back," isn't going anywhere for now.
- While Washington's Legislature voted in 2019 to move to permanent daylight saving time, the state can't make that change without congressional approval.
- The U.S. House recently passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, but the U.S. Senate has yet to take up the measure.
Between the lines: Making that change would push back winter sunrises, raising concerns about the safety of kids heading to school in the dark.
- A new University of Washington study found that permanent daylight saving time could nearly triple the number of days Seattle kids commute to school before sunrise, The Seattle Times reported.
- Researchers warn that more dark commutes could increase the risk of fatal traffic collisions, the newspaper reported.
The bottom line: Go trick-or-treating, then roll your clocks back — and prepare to spring them forward again in March.