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Xopher @13: "The longest day and shortest night aren't necessarily simultaneous..."

I think, by definition, they are--if every moment of a 24-hour-day is classified as "day" or "night", then the longest day either precedes or follows the shortest night.

What IS true is that the longest day and the latest sunset/earliest sunrise are not necessarily simultanous. (Same for the shortest day and the earliest sunset/latest sunrise.)

I was once in England in early December, and checking the almanac showed that the earliest sunset came during my visit--a couple of weeks before the actual solstice. While the sunset started getting later, the sunrise was also getting later, and kept the day getting shorter until the solstice.

Reading the paper last week I saw a bit about the "pealing paint" in downtown Chapel Hill.

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