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This forum answer included these cool graphs and a good explanation.

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/12824/how-long-does-a-sunrise-or-sunset-take/13053#13053

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[–] barrage4u@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

With that sharp twist at the right I'd say these graphs are actually depicting underwire.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

From 19 to 50.

[–] battleshack@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having grown up north of the arctic circle, this is a common fact of life. In mid summer, the sun never completely sets before it rises again. Blows my mind that this change are too subtle to notice closer to the equator.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes that sounds racist until you think about it:

Q: What's the drawback to a one-night stand with an Inuit girl?

A: When the sun comes up, she's six months pregnant.

(Granted, it's only funny to me because I occasionally work in Greenland.)

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Those charts are arranged terribly.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You are asking a lot from MATLAB.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Don't blame matlab its the worlds best engineering language as long as someone else is paying for it

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

MATLAB can’t sort?

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you want them to be arranged?

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Presumably high-medium-low. Sorting them as medium-low-high is a little weird.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's interesting. I built a weather app for Android earlier in the year and started noticing that each day, the sunrise and sunset changed by roughly one minute.

I never noticed that before.