Why Is It Dark So Early? It's the Season, and Then the Clock
Where clocks fall back, sunset in New York reads about an hour earlier overnight, from 5:53 p.m. on Saturday, October 31 to 4:52 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, while the day itself is only about two minutes shorter. This episode separates the season, which keeps shortening the day until December 21, from the clock, which moves the clock-labelled hour from evening to morning all at once. Then it covers who sets the rule, how it started with the railroads and the First World War, the winter of 1974 when the country tried daylight time all year, and where the bill to stop the switch stands.
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