It’s that time of year again where we set the clocks back one hour. Daylight savings time ends at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 3.
Did You Know?
Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during autumn. For example, the Romans kept time with water clocks that had different scales for different months of the year; at Rome’s latitude, the third hour from sunrise (hora tertia) started at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes. From the 14th century onwards, equal-length civil hours supplanted unequal ones, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos and all Jewish ceremonies.
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, October 30). Daylight saving time. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:44, October 30, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daylight_saving_time&oldid=923747513