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Is there a typo in your October dates?

dg writes: not any more, thanks.
UK should use Central European time, that would make it sunset at 9pm now.
Thanks I'll look forward to my after 8 sunset tonight
What people tend to notice is 'when it gets dark' which is around 25-30 mins after sunset.
So, 10% of the year the sun sets before 4pm? What is the earliest it sets?


@Brian
"What people tend to notice is 'when it gets dark' which is around 25-30 mins after sunset"

It is about half an hour in London but noticeably longer in, say, Scotland (in summer). I lived at a place slap-bang on the Equator for a while and it was interesting that the sun went down and almost immediately it was dark.
Loving the longer evenings, but it does tend to throw me regarding getting dinner and sending the sprogs to bed, for a while!
I feel like I should be able to work this out, but do the times factor in daylight savings time for the relevant periods?
Bit depressing that 10% of the sunsets are actually before 4pm.
Data here
http://www.sunrise-and-sunset.com/en/united-kingdom/london/2013

This has sunset at 18:31 on March 30th and 19:32 on March 31st, so includes DST
Simlarly sunset is 17:44 on Oct 26 and 16:42 on Oct 27

The earliest sunset is at 15;51 (about 12th December, but it chnages by less than a minute over the space of a week near the solstice - that's what "solstice" means - the sun sticks)
Yes, the actual solstice and shortest day are actually about a week later, which is a consequence of the "equation of time" - the length of the solar day varies slightly from 24 hours because of the elliptical orbit of the earth, and the earth's variable speed along that orbit - the sun appears to speed up and slow down depending how close we are to it, and the discrepancy is greatest when the sun is closest in early January. The consequence of this is that in late December sunrise and sunset both get later each day - the latest sunrise is around the New Year
@ Timbo - thanks!

I'll take your sunsets at 11pm-ish in the summer - LOVE them, but you can keep that 3.51 bollox!
Antipodean:

Sunset in London is never later than 9:20-ish. Even in Shetland or the Hebrides it doesn't get much later than 10:30pm

http://uk.weather.com/climate/sunRiseSunSet-Lerwick-UKXX0081:1:UK?month=6
.@ Timbo ... been there in Summer and when it isn't actually peeing down with rain / clouded over it certainly seems later! I loved the violet hue of the sky at near midnight in Cornwall ....

I live closer to the equator, which underscores Paul's point earlier I suppose.
Why does everybody in the UK love waking up in the dark?










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