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leanin_green Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:01 PM
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Is it just me, or does it take longer for the sun to set?
I don't know, I could be out to lunch, but, here we are almost March and it still takes until almost 7:00 pm before the sun sets here in Southern Utah. I remember last year after daylight savings time ended that it would be dark before six.

Could that earthquake have really changed the wobble of the axis that much?

It's just something I've noticed in kind of a subtle way. It just seems different somehow. May we live in interesting times, I suppose. Has anyone else noticed?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:04 PM
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Iggytop Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:06 PM
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2. The earthquake
would have only changed it by a very very very very small amount. So it is probably you .
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:07 PM
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3. I think you have your equinoxes and solstices confused...
:D
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leanin_green Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:09 PM
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4. What's that got to do with anything?
It's winter, the days are supposed to be shorter.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:12 PM
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5. The days get shorter and shorter until Dec. 21...
then they get longer and longer. March 21 they are exactly even.

June 21 they peak.
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leanin_green Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:32 PM
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8. Look, I understand all of that, but. . .
all winter I've noticed it hasn't been getting dark as early as it usually does after daylight savings time ends. Hell, I remember the sun setting around 5:30pm last year. This year, December through January, it was still dusk around 7:00pm. I work as a sports official around 6:00pm an I remember having to use my headlights last year when I would drive to the field. This year I haven't had to, that's all.

Oh well, guess I'm just someone focusing on the weird.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:21 AM
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11. Here's a test
go buy an almanac. Check the listed sunrise/sunset times. The almanac was published before the earthquake.

If you can show times are off by an hour, you will have discovered something truly astounding. There might be a Nobel prize in it for you.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:42 PM
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9. Winter STARTS on the shortest day of the year...
In a twisted way, winter is the birth, the beginning of the new year....the days are getting longer and the baseball season is just around the corner.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:15 PM
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6. Yes...
that's exactly what happened. You're the first to notice it.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 10:12 PM
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10. Hmmm.
I just thought it was caused by daylight savings time. That's why I wanted it to be daylight saving time all year long.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:18 PM
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7. Holy crap.
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