CLEVELAND, Ohio — The long, dark evenings that define late fall and most of winter are about to arrive in full force.

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, when clocks “fall back” one hour — and daylight fades noticeably earlier. In Cleveland, Saturday’s 6:21 p.m. sunset becomes 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, nearly an hour earlier.

The shift marks the beginning of the season’s early dusks, when the sky glows orange before most people have even left work.

Sunsets will keep getting earlier for several more weeks, reaching their earliest point between Dec. 5 and Dec. 11, when Cleveland’s sun dips below the horizon at 4:56 p.m., according to timeanddate.com .

Even though the winter solstice on Dec. 21 is the year’s shortest day, sunsets actually start getting a bit later by then —

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