Yipee - shortest day today!

[margaretb]

what a lovely thought - more daylight!!

 

[Potato!]

i thought it was tomorrow

 

[Ladylina83]

Flipping brilliant - it's the only thing getting me through today !

On wards and upwards ladies

 

[moodymare123]

*sighs with relief*
We have made it!!

 

[margaretb]

Oh bother, it is tomorrow, oh well, still a lovely thought!!

 

[FlyingCoo]

Thought it was shortest day on Thursday 22nd December??

 

[scarymare]

Defo tomorrow I'm afraid - still not bad though what a relief

 

[Bertolie]

The shortest day of the year is Thursday 22nd December this year. It varies from year to year and is most commonly either the 21st or 22nd though it can occur on the 20th and 23rd though rarely.

 

[Ladylina83]

... thanks - you just sent me over the edge ! lol

 

[NeilM]

Once we are past the shortest day, spring is practically here





Yeah I know that's nonsense, but I'm trying to feel good about the mud...OMG all that MUD

 

[SaharaS]

Its tomorrow...but if you look on timeanddate.com you'll see the sun tonight & tomorrow sets at exactly the same time..15.53 with -8 seconds shorter tonight, but by the 27th it sets at 1557....so by the end of jan it sets at 16.47(ish) which is almost an hour later...if you take into account that the time its gets hard to see now, rapidly after 1630....this makes it roughly nearly 40 mins from sunset time.....which by my desperately positive calculations, means by the end of jan....in theory we should be able to see at 5-515 what we do now at half 4! This makes me VERY happy. I think I will have confused many with my calculations...and there are differences around the uk ofcourse...but its all good!!!!Double YAY!

 

[Ladylina83]

Its tomorrow...but if you look on timeanddate.com you'll see the sun tonight & tomorrow sets at exactly the same time..15.53 with -8 seconds shorter tonight, but by the 27th it sets at 1557....so by the end of jan it sets at 16.47(ish) which is almost an hour later...if you take into account that the time its gets hard to see now, rapidly after 1630....this makes it roughly nearly 40 mins from sunset time.....which by my desperately positive calculations, means by the end of jan....in theory we should be able to see at 5-515 what we do now at half 4! This makes me VERY happy. I think I will have confused many with my calculations...and there are differences around the uk ofcourse...but its all good!!!!Double YAY!

YOU can be my friend, in fact I could kiss you !! xxxxxx

 

[SaharaS]

YOU can be my friend, in fact I could kiss you !! xxxxxx

haha ..glad to share my mad calculations if it makes people happy!I think there will be alot of sudden squeals of joy from behind many a pc at the news...I do apologise in advance if i have got anyone in trouble at work for gasping/squealing or making slightly psychotic grins appear ...how funny...the thought of more light is almost better than Christmas!Just bring on a good month of frost to kill all the bugs & bannish this vile mud...do you think if we all hope hard enough it will happen?x