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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail=_FFB68C68-FC62-4715-8FD3-A4FCEFA60743 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 According to an editorial in the Vancouver Sun newspaper for Sat., Dec. = 20/14: Compared with Dec. 21=92s shortest-day-length, Dec. 22 is 2 seconds = longer, Dec. 23 is 8 seconds longer, Dec. 24 is 13 seconds longer, Dec. = 25 it=92s 19 more seconds, and so on (but no further data given). Merry Xmas from Jim & Pat in Victoria, B.C. at the moment. Begin forwarded message: > From: "rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca" <rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] why aren't the days getting longer > Date: December 23, 2014 at 10:10:26 AM PST > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >=20 > Or as my Grandmother used to say Jamie > The difference in the length of day between the shortest day > and Old Christmas was the time it took a rooster to take a step. > Not a long time! > Enjoy the snow > Paul > =20 >> On December 23, 2014 at 8:35 AM desolatechair = <desolatechair@gmail.com> wrote:=20 >>=20 >> Andy >> =20 >> There is some rounding at play, but basically sunrise keeps getting = later until around the 25th. The earliest sunset is around the 17th, = and after the 21st it starts getting later but the incremental change is = not enough to make up for what we continue to lose in the morning. = Takes about a week after the solstice to start making a net gain. >> =20 >> Regards >> Jamie >> =20 >> =20 >> Sent from Samsung Mobile >>=20 >>=20 >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Andy Moir/Christine Callaghan <slickdog1@gmail.com> >> Date:12-23-2014 8:09 AM (GMT-04:00) >> To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Subject: [NatureNS] why aren't the days getting longer >> =20 >> According to the environment canada weather page, we actually got 1=20= >> minute less sunlight today than yesterday. I understand about solar=20= >> noon (I think), so I'm not really expecting sunrise to be earlier = each=20 >> day...but the total hours of sunlight should be increasing, not=20 >> decreasing, after the solstice, I thought. What up with that? Is it=20= >> perhaps some rounding issue with the Environment Canada calculator? = I=20 >> get the same result (less sunlight time, when I go to the NOAA solar=20= >> Calculator)=20 >> Thanks.=20 >> Andy=20 >> (who's always dealing with the big issues in life)=20 >>=20 >=20 > =20 --Apple-Mail=_FFB68C68-FC62-4715-8FD3-A4FCEFA60743 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;">According to an editorial in the Vancouver Sun = newspaper for Sat., Dec. 20/14:<div><br></div><div>Compared with Dec. = 21=92s shortest-day-length, Dec. 22 is 2 seconds longer, Dec. 23 is 8 = seconds longer, Dec. 24 is 13 seconds longer, Dec. 25 it=92s 19 more = seconds, and so on (but no further data = given).</div><div><br></div><div>Merry Xmas from Jim & Pat in = Victoria, B.C. at the moment.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a = href=3D"mailto:rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca">rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca</a>" = <<a = href=3D"mailto:rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca">rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>= ;<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Re: [NatureNS] = why aren't the days getting longer</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">December 23, 2014 at 10:10:26 AM = PST<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, = 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a= = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><br><div> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF-8" = http-equiv=3D"Content-Type"> =20 <div style=3D""> =20 <div> Or as my Grandmother used to say Jamie </div>=20 <div> The difference in the length of day between the shortest day </div>=20 <div> and Old Christmas was the time it took a rooster to take a step. </div>=20 <div> Not a long time! </div>=20 <div> Enjoy the snow </div>=20 <div> Paul </div>=20 <div> </div>=20 <blockquote style=3D"padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 0px; = border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: = solid; position: relative;" type=3D"cite"> On December 23, 2014 at 8:35 AM desolatechair <<a = href=3D"mailto:desolatechair@gmail.com">desolatechair@gmail.com</a>> = wrote: <br> <br>=20 <div> Andy </div>=20 <div> </div>=20 <div> There is some rounding at play, but basically sunrise keeps getting = later until around the 25th. The earliest sunset is around the = 17th, and after the 21st it starts getting later but the incremental = change is not enough to make up for what we continue to lose in th