I'm guessing march?
At some point there is a balance between the daylight hours and nighttime hours but I do not know the exact date or time period.
An equinox is not the shortest day. It has the same amount of daylight and darkness. The solstices have the longest and shortest days. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in terms of the amount of daylight.
There is an equinox in March and September. They are the time of the year when the tilt of the earth does not put either the northern or southern hemisphere tilted towards the sun. The Autumn equinox is the one that occurs in September.
Although equinox means equal night, it doesn't mean that the day and night exactly the same. They are close. After the autumnal equinox the days are shorter though.
No. It has equal amounts of daylight and darkness. A winter solstice has the least amount of daylight and can be regarded as the shortest day of the year. If your clocks go forward once a year, then that particular day has 23 hours, so that could also be said to be the shortest day of the year.
No. At an equinox, which happens in March and September, the amount of daylight and darkness are about equal.
As it is the month of an equinox, there is a fairly equal amount of darkness and light, so about 12 hours of daylight.
March equinox and September equinox : Daylight and darkness are of equal length on both the Vernal Point (Spring/March 20th 2011) and the Autumnal Point (Autumn/September 23rd 2011) .
Only on the 2 equinox's which are March 21 and September 21.
These are the spring and autumn equinoxes, and are days when the daylight and darkness are equal.
Equinox
Day and night are only equal on the winter and summer equinox.
Daylight and darkness are equal during the vernal equinox.
It is called the Autumnal Equinox. It is the day of equal daylight and darkness following the Summer Solstice. The first day of Spring is called the Vernal Equinox. It is the day of equal daylight and darkness following the Winter Solstice.
The hours of darkness and daylight would be equal.
The hours of darkness and daylight would be equal.
They're the same length on either side of the date of the equinox, which falls in March and September. In 2009 those dates were 3/20 and 9/22, respectively. Just count days on either side of those dates, to answer our question. What ends up happening, is that the first 20 days of March will have roughly the same length of daylight as the 20 days AFTER the September equinox (i.e. 9/22 thru 10/11). Similarly, the first twenty days of September will have the quality of daylight shown for the first 20 days after the spring equinox (3/20 thru 4/9)