Days are drawing out....

[Rusty Nails]

because day to day daylight time changes by a couple of minutes around the equinoxes, and mere seconds around the solstices.

Thanks. I see that, but I am talking about the time between clock-changing dates and the winter solstice.

 

[Falsesummat]

I'm with oldhippy. Wake up, whew made it!

 

[MontyVeda]

Thanks. I see that, but I am talking about the time between clock-changing dates and the winter solstice.

to give us more 'summer' (BST) days than 'winter' (or GMT). No reason it should be equal really.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I don't get the shortest day thing. I prefer to note the date when the sun sets later, so I can tell myself the evenings are getting longer. It's December 7 or 8.

 

[Alex321]

Thanks. I see that, but I am talking about the time between clock-changing dates and the winter solstice.

That is because the clocks don't change until over a month after the Autumn equinox, but they change no more than than a 9 days after the Spring Equinox.

So by the time the clocks go back in October, daytimes have already been shorter than 12 hours for over a month, while they have only been longer than 12 hours for about a week or so when the clocks go forward in March.

 

[Slick]

Short days are fine if you get to have longer nights in bed....

I don't know why, but I've never been one for lying in bed. Even the cat looks at me as if I'm off my head at 5am on a Sunday morning.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have been given 11 bottles of wine in total by residents since beginning of December. Should be good until Summer evenings!

You being an old hippy are you gonna have some Jamaican Woodbine with those bottles?

 

[Oldhippy]

Jamaican Woodbine? What is that? If it is a dope reference I've not heard it before but no I am not.

 

[mustang1]

noticeably lighter this morning. Or this evening

Those insects that only live for a day, or was it three days, whatever, well they will notice it. Actually IDK if those insects are around in winter.

 

[Blue Hills]

Why is it that days seem to get darker very quickly once the clocks go back, but take ages for them to get light for longer before the clocks go forward again?

not an equivelent comparison.

 

[keithmac]

Riding to work and back home in the dark is quite depressing, roll on summer!.

 

[figbat]

Evening. For now.
(there's another few days of dawn getting later, I believe... )

Correct. The morning turnaround is around the 28th, so the sunrise is still getting later. The evenings have been getting lighter since the 12th.

 

[Milzy]

noticeably lighter this morning. Or this evening

0.2 mins yeah

 

[Dayvo]

Jamaican Woodbine? What is that? If it is a dope reference I've not heard it before but no I am not.

Woodbines is an old rolling tobacco. The Jamaican reference is just another ingredient.

 

[Oldhippy]

Ah, thank you.