On Friday the 5:00 PM lesson trots out under a pink sky. On Monday it starts in the dark. Nothing about the lesson changed. The light did.
US clocks go back on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 2:00 AM. Every ride in your schedule keeps its clock time, so the sunset is what moves, about an hour earlier overnight.
What changes on November 1
Sunset is earliest around December 8, then creeps back, and the clocks go forward again on Sunday, March 14, 2027.
Approximate sunset times for each city centre.
| City | Sat Oct 31 | Sun Nov 1 | Earliest (about Dec 8) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 5:39 PM | 4:38 PM | 4:12 PM |
| Chicago | 5:46 PM | 4:45 PM | 4:20 PM |
| Denver | 5:59 PM | 4:58 PM | 4:36 PM |
| Atlanta | 6:46 PM | 5:45 PM | 5:29 PM |
The daylight math
A rule of thumb for the last outdoor start: sunset, minus the length of the lesson, minus 15 minutes to cool the horse out.
Chicago, November 1: sunset is 4:45 PM. A 60-minute lesson has to start by 3:30 PM, and a 45-minute one by 3:45 PM.
Now look at your after-school slots. Children arrive at 4:00 or 4:30. In the northern half of the country, those lessons can no longer finish outdoors in daylight.
Move series, not rides
The reflex is to open the schedule and drag each Tuesday lesson, one at a time, for twelve weeks. A lesson that repeats is one decision, not twelve.
Start on paper. List your weekly slots, probably 12 to 20, and mark each one stays, same time but indoors, or moves. Families have built their week around the time, so keep it where you can. Adults with day jobs can't come at 3:30, so they need an indoor or lit evening slot.
How we built it
- From the Schedule, open the first ride on or after Monday, November 2. Earlier rides stay as they were.
- On the Details tab, change the Start time, and the Location if the lesson is going indoors.
- Choose Save changes. Nose asks whether the change is for This ride only or This and future rides. Pick the second.
Every later ride in the series shifts, and the Regulars, the riders booked onto the series with their usual horses, go with it.
The details are in the help centre: Creating rides.
Telling riders once
Riders don't mind a new time. They mind finding out on the way to the stable. Here is a message to adapt:
Send it before you change the schedule, ideally a week ahead. Add your cold-weather rule too, for example that a lesson cancelled because the footing is frozen never costs the rider. We covered that in a cancellation policy riders actually follow.
Winter hours and indoor slots
Write down your winter hours
Decide four times and put them on the door: the first lesson, the last lesson start, the last time the outdoor arena is used, and when the stable closes.
In Nose, an admin sets this under Settings → General, in Hours & calendar. When you build a repeating series, rides that fall outside your hours are skipped. Set the winter hours first. More in Hours & calendar.
Give the indoor arena a plan
Give every hour a purpose:
- Late afternoon and evening: lesson blocks, with 15 minutes between groups to drag the footing and cool horses.
- Mornings: training rides and boarders.
- One quiet hour: nothing booked, for whatever overruns.
Add the arena under Settings → Locations, pick it on each lesson, and use the Location filter on the schedule to see just that arena's week.
Rugs, turnout and who is available
- Coming in. A horse that comes in at 3:00 PM needs grooming and tacking before a 3:30 lesson. Work out each horse's real earliest start.
- Cooling out. A horse in a thick coat that works hard comes back wet and takes longer to dry. Leave a longer gap or cap lessons per horse per day.
Try it on a real winter week
Want to see one edit move a whole series? Look around Nose at nose.horse. It's free to start, no card needed.
