Checked on 1 November 2026. If you work with U.S. clients or have a journey planned, today is a useful day to check your calendar. The end of daylight saving time can move the Indian time of a recurring appointment even when your contact keeps the same local meeting hour.
What changes today?
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology confirms that daylight saving time ends on 1 November 2026 at 2 a.m. local time. Participating locations turn their clocks back to 1 a.m., repeating an hour. The change happens according to each location’s local clock, rather than at one simultaneous national moment.
India keeps IST throughout the year, as shown in Timeanddate’s India time-change information. When a U.S. contact returns to standard time and keeps the same local meeting hour, that appointment falls one hour later in India than it did during U.S. daylight time.
Check recurring appointments before Monday
Open the actual invitation and inspect its named time zone. A meeting anchored to a U.S. city can behave differently from one fixed to IST. Before sending a correction, compare what both participants see for the next occurrence. A calendar that has already adjusted needs no manual extra hour.
For a fresh invitation, select the destination city’s time zone and include the meeting date. Ask the other participant to confirm the local time shown on their calendar. This also helps when a team has members in several U.S. states.
Travelling or arranging a late-night call?
Use the airline’s current itinerary and local airport times for each flight. For appointments during the repeated early-morning hour, clarify which occurrence is intended. Avoid interpreting an old screenshot or an undated time conversion as confirmation.
NIST lists exceptions, including Hawaii and most of Arizona. Check the specific destination instead of applying the change to every U.S. contact. For an international team, review each city separately; countries do not all change clocks on the same schedule.
A quick message you can use
“Please confirm the local time shown for our next meeting following the 1 November clock change. I’ll check the corresponding IST time and update the invitation if required.”
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