Fall is officially here in Chicago, which means the days are unmistakably getting shorter as nighttime hours will increase up until the winter solstice.
Daylight saving time is a changing of the clocks that typically begins in spring and ends in fall in what is often referred to as"spring forward" and"fall back."
Some people like to credit Benjamin Franklin as the inventor of daylight saving time when he wrote in a 1784 essay about saving candles and saying,"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." But that was meant more as satire than a serious consideration. On Feb. 9, 1942, Franklin Roosevelt instituted a year-round daylight saving time, which he called"wartime." This lasted until Sept. 30, 1945.
"The autumnal equinox is an astronomical event that marks the start of autumn ," a post from the Old Farmers Almanac said."In the Northern Hemisphere, the autumnal equinox occurs in September; in the Southern Hemisphere, it occurs in March."
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