Col wrote:
"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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Jack ) wrote:

Extrapolating from today's sunshine figures in Cambridgeshire we
would appear to be on course for the dullest winter on record.

Jack



An old chestnut at this time of year, when do the evenings start to get
lighter. I know it's before the winter solstice.


A the good old Equation of Time.
Perhaps this will be the year I finally understand it......

From what I recall, the date is considerably before the solstice
perhaps as early as the 12th and conversely the mornings get
darker until into the New Year.

But *please* don't as me to explain it


I think it's something to do with the Earth doesn't spin around the Sun
in a perfect eclipse.

Joe
Wolverhampton
175m asl