Looking forward to daylight

[andrewducker]

From the 21st to the 25th of December this year there are 6 hours and 58 minutes of daytime each day in Edinburgh.

Thankfully, we are flying down to my parents in Devon this evening, where there is a whole hour of extra daytime. And by the time we get back to Edinburgh there will a whole 7 hours of daylight every day.

It won't be until the end of February that I'll be leaving the house and returning to it in daylight.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

From the 21st to the 25th of December this year there are 6 hours and 58 minutes of daytime in Edinburgh.

That’s just under 84m per day, which really isn’t a lot.

[andrewducker]

Edited for clarity. Thank you.

[channelpenguin]

By me here in N Germany...

Sunrise today 08:24
Sunset today 15:47

So a day length of 7hr 23 mins. Huh. You must be a tad further north.

Still sucks! Glad you will partly escape! I'm a morning person. I don't do much in the dark. I never feel like it.

(And, since yesterday, we've had 97km/h winds, finally coming down a bit, slowly over the next days)

[mountainkiss]

It doesn’t work now because the post got edited!

[andrewducker]

Sorry!

[andrewducker]

German/Netherlands border is about the same latitude as Newcastle upon Tyne. So, yes, definitely north of you!

[channelpenguin]

Wrong side of Germany :-). But probably right on the latitude.

I'm 53.97°N

You're about 2° north of me. I thought it was 1!

[andrewducker]

Fascinating reply with a bunch of latitudes just under your comment!

[bens_dad]

German/Netherlands border is about the same latitude as Newcastle upon Tyne

That surprised me, so I checked.

Lerwick (Shetlands) 60.17
Oslo 59.9
Kirkwall (Orkney) 58.98
Northernmost point of Denmark 57.76
Aberdeen 57.16
Helsingor (Hamlet's Castle) 56.05
Edinburgh 55.99

Northernmost point of Germany 55.06
Mouth of the Tyne 55.01
Denmark/Germany border 54.8-54.9

Mouth of Humber (Spurn Head) 53.58
(Kingston-Upon-)Hull 53.75
Netherlands/Germany border hits North Sea 53.5
Manchester 53.4-53.55
Gronigen (NL) 53.25
Bremen (Germany) 53.1

Munich 48.15

I hadn't realized that the northern tip of Denmark was north of Aberdeen,
but the Tyne is about the Germany/Denmark border and the Dutch/Germany border reaches roughly as far north as the Humber.

I do remember looking out of my kitchen window in Aberdeen to watch the sun rise at exactly 9am.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that was thorough and interesting!

[channelpenguin]

The one that surprises a lot of people is that Glasgow is further north than Moscow. (Just! 55.8617° N vs 55.7558° N). But maybe when the gulf stream fails it'll get more intuitively believable.

[cmcmck]

Have a good trip!

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[calimac]

We feel it, even though we're much further south. B. used to work 12 hours a day, 3 or 4 days a week: 5 AM to 5 PM, with an hour's drive each way. So not seeing daylight except for lunch break for long periods.

[andrewducker]

I do not think I would like that. My brain would cease working long before the end of my shift.

[channelpenguin]

Mine too. I would enter what I call the "negative work zone" - where I can spend 2-3 hours just making a big mess (which will have to be abandoned or reverted), and failing to solve the problem ... Which I inevitably solve in 5 minutes the next day at (ideally about) 8am. It's happened too many times. Now I really try hard to go do something else when I feel that hit.

A brain dead physical task with zero danger I could do for longer. But anything needing attention, nope.

In Germany, there are all sorts of interesting rules - you aren't ALLOWED to work more than 6 days a week Mon-Sat, for a maximum of 8 hours per day (10 hours only in exceptional cases, Sunday only in very exceptional cases), and you have to have a specific minimum number of hours off between work shifts (11, I think), and you can't average more than 8 hours a day on 6 days a week over 6 months. The company can be fined €30,000 for EACH breach. It's the employers duty to enforce this, record the work times and explicitly send workers home if required. Overtime has to be compensated by time off, though that can be 6 monthly I think, or pay instead?

Only if you are self employed can you do otherwise. I'm guessing there must also be a Sunday exception for restaurants, fuel stations, medical, police, emergency utilities repair... But generally, outside of designated tourist areas, or major railway stations, all shops and businesses except restaurants and bakers are shut on Sunday.

[foms]

Waving from relatively sunny (45° north latitude) but 5-10 degrees more extreme for temperatures, in both directions, and about 10 times snowier.

[andrewducker]

Oh yeah, being near the ocean has definitely got bonuses when it comes to stabilising the temperature.