On the equinox date in March, the length of daylight is actually longer than darkness by several minutes.
will be shining directly down on the equator at a point over the Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,900 miles southeast of the Hawaiian Islands.When most of us were growing up, it always seemed that the first day of spring was on March 21, not March 20. But now for North Americans, spring begins on March 20. In fact, during the 20th century, March 21 was actually the exception rather than the rule, with the equinox landing on that day only 36 times.
Next year in fact, spring will officially begin on March 19. This shift in dates happens because the Earth's elliptical orbit changes the orientation of its axis, and because our year does not contain an even number of days. The vagaries of our Gregorian calendar, such as the inclusion of a leap day in century years divisible by 400 also help contribute to the seasonal date shift. Had the year 2000 not been a leap year, the equinox would be occurring this year on Tuesday , not Monday.
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