The time is almost here to “Fall Back”
Soon, Illinois residents will turn their clocks back an hour. So when exactly does daylight saving time come to an end?Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyUnder federal law, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March, and runs through the first Sunday of November in most of the United States.
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."