Sunsets
Someone please explain to me why the sun is setting at 4:2? something this early in the year? My almanac from the 80s has sunset, for this time zone, at 4:52 and that's on December 22/23. Now, here it is a whole month early and the sun is already setting. And please explain to me, WHYYYYYYYY, the sun is rising lower in the sky, crossing the ecliptic lower, and it's zenith is much lower in the sky than I've ever seen it IN MY LIFE, from California. And then explain to me again, why for the first time since the days of Nixon, they fiddled with the Change over this year to PDT by a delay of some three weeks. When the moon some years ago started bouncing all over the ecliptic, no big deal. It's tidally-locked with earth, that little rock is going nowhere. Let it slip and slide. But, for the sun to be lower, then that means only ONE THING: the Earth is and has shifted on its axis. Now, for all those people who spent the last two and half years deriding me because, in June of 2005 I said we would see the emergence of the pole shift soon, then this is your chance to throw down and set the record straight. Or at least set me straight. Yeah...straighten me out. With facts, please.
Because I'm slow, I ask these things.
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The official Sunset and Moonrise site is here,
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_One..
I plugged in some dates to see how the times add up to year over year data.
Today the sunset in Boston at 4:16 pm ! The sunset on Dec 21, the shortest day of the year,or used to be is 4:15 pm !
The upcoming month in between lists the shortest day(s) of the year being Dec 2 – Dec 11 when the sunsets at 4:12 pm.
After Dec 11 the sunsets starts to climb by 4 minutes up to Dec 21. As point in reference January 21 ,2008 the sunsets at 4:44 pm. which is about 30 minutes later than Dec 21 or the sunset is a minute later daily from Dec 11 the shortest day of the year this year !
Eric - 24 11 07 - 11:17
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