The shortest day
Yesterday was the winter solstice—happy winter solstice, everyone! Here in London, sunrise was at 8:03 am, and sunset was at 3:52 pm (give or take, depending on the Google link you click on). This picture of a statue in front of the Royal Courts of Justice was taken around 3:45 pm (and it was completely dark by 4:30):
I’ve been complaining a good bit about the short days, but when I was looking up these numbers, I also looked up New York’s. In fact, the sun was up in New York a mere 45 minutes or so more on each end: sunrise at 7:16 am, sunset at 4:31 pm. But it’s an important 45 minutes. In Rock Hill, South Carolina, however, the sun was up a whopping 10 hours (nearly): sunrise at 7:28 am, sunset at 5:17 pm.
Science is fun.
And we all have it much better than these folks, of course, but still.
posted by Me @ 3:08 AM
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I'm going to have to agree, the days are incredibly short. That's one of my very few complaints about London. But remember, the shorter your days are in winter, the longer they'll be in the summer.
"SAD symptoms include lethargy, a heightened desire for sleep, cravings for carbohydrates, feelings of melancholy, fuzzy thinking..." -- doesn't that sound like many people you know? I mean, maybe not MANY, but certainly SOME. And not just in winter, either.
I drove south on the interstate 81 from District of Columbia to South Carolina and clearly felt the extra 20 minutes or so of God's light. All is not lost. Days will not ceases to be. Life will go on. The old days of medieval SC when liguor stores stayed open with sun are gone but pagan reasoning behind that is apparent in the this season.
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