This is the autumnal equinox, when the day and the night are of approximately equal length. We will have 12 hours and 10 minutes of daylight today. This is halfway between the longest day of the year, which was June 20th (14 hours, 59 minutes of daylight) and the shortest day of the year, which will be December 21st (9 hours, 21 minutes of daylight).
Today's sunrise occurs at 6:47AM and sunset at 6:57PM.
