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In my own strange world
I love the darkness of midwinter - the cold air, the rain, fog and ice - the majesty of nature in stasis - to be reborn anew in spring ... the sheer wonder of the stars at night... the celestial ocean never looks so resplendent... the seas froth and rage, creating art with every turn of the tide.

There is beauty in the darkness.
I share your love of Winter...I have been looking at this earlier..
 

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Sep 4, 2022
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The orbit is elliptical, so not all days are 24 hours. This is why we have a leap year. But the OP is of course referring to the length of day light.
That's not why days aren't exactly 24 hours and it's not why we have a leap year (well, days actually being just over 24hours is, but that's not related to the elliptical orbit).
But yes, the OP was obviously referring to daylight.
 

Swansman

Pro-peace
May 13, 2019
22,320
Sweden
I love the darkness of midwinter - the cold air, the rain, fog and ice - the majesty of nature in stasis - to be reborn anew in spring ... the sheer wonder of the stars at night... the celestial ocean never looks so resplendent... the seas froth and rage, creating art with every turn of the tide.

There is beauty in the darkness.
May I recommend Kiruna. Around 20 minutes of daylight during the darkest weeks... Some decent Northern Lights though.

northernlights.jpg
 

Fake composite picture been doing the rounds for years on social media
Snopes says miscaptioned. The photo is real, not fake, but only 46 photos, not 48, and were taken in an empty sky, instead of in front of a cathedral.
The figure 8 movement of the sun’s position is called an analemma.
 

BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
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WeHo
I suppose that is the difference between literate and literal.

Day being day. As opposed to night. Yes there is more than one definition of the worda 'day'.
Had a conversation with a very autistic colleague who took midday to mean the middle of the daylight hours not the middle of the hours of the day. So midday for most people is noon. Midday for him so halfway between sunrise and sunset. His reasoning was noon already has a word so why have another for it?
 

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