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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=8F=B1_Time_Change=3F_=3F=3F=3F=3F?= =?UTF-8?Q?_3/09/2025?= Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:47:29 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <vqo4nn$1l6n7$1@dont-email.me> References: <5379b37d292d16b81b050652e3725425@www.novabbs.com> <vqkrn1$t83p$1@dont-email.me> <7d8fbb5b4d0c38b6b443eea7ed524035@www.novabbs.com> <mgnzP.468552$TBhc.311152@fx16.iad> <926518f1b7940e816bd6e76b8b6c43c9@www.novabbs.org> <znIzP.213960$OrR5.18170@fx18.iad> <68dd8af9ed097c1131c76bf234a392ec@www.novabbs.org> <rtMzP.738336$TBhc.293391@fx16.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:47:36 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="49866f8e8a96fe490acad59a4146ed07"; logging-data="1743591"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DNnLqQw7QrvkAtwoJvnQC" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:aHbgd45uK0xorrs/sCju27WwtGU= On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:37:27 -0400, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote: >On 2025-03-10 8:10 p.m., dsi1 wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:58:05 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: > >> Indeed, at the equator, days and nights will always be equal in length. >> That's due to the earth's tilting relative to the plane of its travel >> around the sun. If the earth wasn't tilted, the days would be twelve >> hours long no matter what your latitude is. I suppose that near the >> poles, it would still be pretty cold. > >It's kinda interesting to watch the change of seasons and to track the >changes in the length of days and the angle of the sun. My house faces >south so in the winter the sun is to the south and in the summer it is >to the north of the house. During the winter when I am watching TV >upstairs in the late afternoon I have to close the curtain to keep the >sun out of my eyes but in the summer is shining on the other side of the >house. >At this time of the sun comes up a little earlier and sets a little >later so the days get about two and a half minutes longer each day, so >about an hour and a half over the month. > >In the winter when I was working day shifts I would leave for work in >the dark and get home after dark. Fascinating stuff, Dave. -- Bruce <https://i.postimg.cc/5NvHwfF0/trumpputin.jpg>