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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 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

From 19 to 50.

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

Those charts are arranged terribly.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are asking a lot from MATLAB.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

MATLAB can’t sort?

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

How do you want them to be arranged?

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.