http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

http://www.dlmcn.com/eqntime.html

should set you in the right direction!!



On Monday, 2 January 2017 01:45:42 UTC+2, WindnFog wrote:

> This isn't a technical weewx question, and I apologize if I'm wasting 
> bandwith. But I gotta know! :-) 
>
>
> I have been watching my sunrise time (via weewx and confirmed by a Google 
> search of sunrise in Halifax, 12 miles away.) 21 December is supposed to be 
> the shortest day of the year, and it is (+- a day.) However it's just 
> around now, about 2 weeks past 21 December, that I see the sunrise time 
> stall, and I assume it will reverse and start to get earlier in the next 
> few days. 
>
>
> The days are getting longer since 21 December because the sunset time is 
> moving at a faster rate 
>
> than the sunrise is.
>
>
> Can anyone with some astronomical experience explain why this is? (i.e. 
> shouldn't the sunrise start to get earlier and the sunset later on the same 
> date?)
>
>
> - Paul
>
>
> www.ve1dx.net   
>

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