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johnnybgood
12-21-2014, 10:00
Better get a crackin' while there's still daylight.

Mrs Baggins
12-21-2014, 12:46
It's my birthday. A good day. :)

Kaptain Kangaroo
12-21-2014, 16:52
Better get a crackin' while there's still daylight.

Plenty of daylight down here where it is the Summer Solstice....... you are just hiking in the wrong hemisphere !!! :)

rocketsocks
12-21-2014, 17:13
It's my birthday. A good day. :)
And a very happy birthday to you Mrs. B. love when this day comes...(and but for a recent thread here explaining the length of daylight around this time of year)...in my mind, the days are now getting longer. :sun

Another Kevin
12-22-2014, 11:12
Today (December 22) is the longest day of the year - 24 hours 00 minutes 19.9 seconds. The shortest day is September 19, at 23 hours 59 minutes 38.7 seconds. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time) has more.) 24 hours is just the average over the whole year, and it's a little bit off. They add leap seconds every once in a while to adjust it.

The shift in the solar day length is why the earliest Northern Hemisphere sunset comes a couple of weeks before the solstice and the latest sunrise a couple of weeks after.

colorado_rob
12-22-2014, 12:01
Plenty of daylight down here where it is the Summer Solstice....... you are just hiking in the wrong hemisphere !!! :) Well, until Feb 19th, at which time we board a plane and come down and visit! really looking forward to checking out Oz...

Good stuff, thanks for that link, Kevin.