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Time of the year’s earliest sunset (web.archive.org)
submitted 11 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mapporn@lemmy.world
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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Before 3pm" sounds horrific.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I imagine those regions are effectively in 24 hours of darkness at that point

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

I can't tell you about 24h of darkness, but I would love to experience a few weeks of 24h daylight! But only as a tourist. LOL

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are those "rays" physical or caused by timezones?

[–] Ghost33313@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember that the world is tilted as it rotates. The "rays" are from the earth's rotation at an angle changing the sundown time on an axis.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also the Mercator projection is infamously inaccurate. I'm surprised the straight lines are straight, actually.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is absolutely not Mercator (otherwise, meridians would be all vertical and the Polar Circle a straight horizontal boundary), and the diagonal lines do not quite appear straight.