Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Getting darker sooner


Eric: "Want to make a blog post about the sun going away?"
Me: "Where's it going?"
Eric: "... the Southern Hemisphere."

Ask a silly question, get a silly answer, I suppose.
I leave work at 7 during the week and have definitely noticed how much darker it is at that time with each passing day. In fact, we're losing about three minutes a day right now and have less than 12 and a half hours of daylight now.
The good news is that we're nearly halfway through the downswing; the autumnal equinox is Monday. We've been diminishing our hours of daylight for about three months... and in three more, we'll be adding light to each day!

2 comments:

Justin said...

When will the sunset be the first day that daylight savings ends?

Justin Gehrts said...

Daylight saving time ends on November 2 this year. On November 1, the sunset time in Rockford will be 5:49pm. On November 2, the sunset will occur at 4:48pm.