Thanks, Andrew. Makes sense now. 

- Paul VE1DX 

www.ve1dx.net


> On Jan 1, 2017, at 8:49 PM, Andrew Milner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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