As I mentioned, this is the phenomenon that an old colleague of mine would (vainly) attempt to teach me at this time every year. Fortunately we've now got wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma>, which helps me feel marginally less ignorant.
—R On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:33 AM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > This came up after the service at the mother church, today. > > > > http://www.analemma.com/pages/framespage.html > > > > Being a late riser, and a darkness hater, I regard December 7 (the day > after St. Nicholas’s Day, by the way) as the first sign of spring, *because > it is the day that the afternoons start getting longer. *The shortest > morning, by the way, appears to occur on January 7, One of 3 days in the > year when the sun is at the Zenith at noon. In other words, noon is moving > away from sunset faster that the setting sun is moving toward the horizon > so the sun starts arriving later on the clock. Or something like that. > The way I put it implies two standards of time measurement and I cannot > think what the second one is. > > > > I would love to have this explained to me in Defrocked English Major > Talk. Also, we have at least one Friammer in the southern hemisphere. Is > the same true there, Russ? > > > > Nick >
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