Earliest sunset
Depending on where you live in the US, the earliest sunset is in the next couple of days or even today.
I’m not an early riser, so the earliest sunset day represents an even greater milestone for me than the shortest day. I’m always happy to see the sunsets get later, even if only by a few seconds at first.
Here in southwest Idaho the earliest sunset this time of year is at about 5:10 PM. That’s because this part of the state is at the far west end of the Mountain time zone – we’re further west than Las Vegas, which is in the Pacific time zone.
“Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, swiftly through the years…”
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That is indeed correct. While 12/21 is indeed the shortest day it’s neither earliest sunset or latest sunrise. The latter is in early January so both sunset and sunrise become gradually later in December.
One thing I like about living in the Bay Area as opposed to Boston where I grew up is tharthe earliest sunset is not so extreme. 4:49 vs 4:12. Even earlier where Neo is
Being a very early riser (3:30-4:00 every day), I’ll be watching. I love to watch the day lengths wax and wane. Here’s a favorite site I like to use. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5347578
The early sunset in the winter is another factor that drove me from New England. I was a definite SAD sufferer.
One wonders what ” day length ” would be chosen in a future underground city on the moon or Mars. I don’t mean the 24 hour cycle. On the moon you might as well stick with a 24 hour cycle. On Mars go with the longer Martian day. But the artificial light in the common areas where plants might be? 12 hours of light ? 18 hours of light? And Would you do ” seasons”? Some plants need seasons.
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Thanks for posting this, Neo. It’s good to know about the harbinger of the coming Light! And thanks to Sonny for the link.
Here in Fairbanks, sunrise is currently around 10:45am and sunset is around 2:45pm.
Check out the link to the local visitor’s center website for some amazing photos:
https://www.explorefairbanks.com/blog/post/winter-solstice-fairbanks-alaska/
@Jon Baker:One wonders what ” day length ” would be chosen in a future underground city on the moon or Mars.
If whatever it is they do in Antarctic research stations isn’t suitable, any number of science fiction writers have given examples.
Isaac Asimov’s Robot Novels, where everyone lived underground or indoors, were not consistent on this topic. In the earlier ones, all of Earth was one 24-hour time zone regardless of what the sun was doing, and in the later ones local time followed the sun even though no one was outside. Either way, since only robots went outside they were the only ones who really needed to know since they were the ones growing the crops.
It was a convention when I was stationed in Greenland for a year, to mention the time of sunrise and sunset every day, along with a general weather report. At midsummer, there was twilight all though the night, although the sun itself was behind the mountains above the fjord. But after the autumn equinox, the days grew shorter and shorter and shorter, until at mid-winter, there was a kind of half-twilight for half an hour… the rest of the day being dark.
Oddly enough, I think most of us stationed there found the round-the-clock day just as unsettling as the darkness at midwinter. On the other hand, if there was a scary movie showing at the base theater during summer, one didn’t have to walk home to the barracks in the dark…
Due to years of early rising for work even weekends almost always up at 4am. Daylight savings time does nothing for me as summer still should be in bed by 8pm.
It’s the sun rise that matters to me.
Skip: ” It’s the sun rise that matters to me.”
And following Buckmister Fuller, the sun does not really “rise” or “set” but is de-eclipsed in the morning and elipsed in the evening as the earth rotates, from our respective positions on it.
Thinking in terms of the earth (and me) moving towards the sun in the morning and away from it at night is something I can now do more or less on demand, but of course several decades of “rises” and “sets” preceded my learning of Fuller’s viewpoint, so the pre-Fuller perception is still sometimes hard to ignore.