# Doper with the least daylight?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 30, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614 "2012-11-30T21:34:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/41 "2012-12-04T14:24:42Z")
> [@Colophon](#):
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> I’ve never heard anyone being recommended to take Vitamin D here in England, and even here in the south we’re considerably further north than Seattle.
I checked Seattle on a map the other day and it’s about level with the border between German and Switzerland, which would make it very South on my scale.
> [@Norse](#):
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> “Of course we had summer this year! Unfortunately, I was busy in the bathroom just then”
In Stockholm we had no summer at all this year. Someone commented the other week that “Today is warmer than it was in June”.
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### Author:  [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/42 "2012-12-04T14:26:53Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> “if you had a quick nookie” to enhance my standing
IME, a nookie - whether quick or slow - doesn’t enhance my “standing”. Usually, it’ll reduce my “standing”. At least temporarily 😃
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/43 "2012-12-04T17:15:42Z")
> [@Norse](#):
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> Old joke from that part of the country:
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> “Of course we had summer this year! Unfortunately, I was busy in the bathroom just then”
The Canadian version of that joke (sort of) - “We have two seasons - winter and construction.” 🙂
Sunny winter days does make a _huge_ difference - I can put more layers on when it’s cold and sunny, but I can’t make the sun come out.
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### Author:  [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/44 "2012-12-04T18:03:20Z")
> [@Colophon](#):
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> I’ve never heard anyone being recommended to take Vitamin D here in England, and even here in the south we’re considerably further north than Seattle.
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> I read somewhere that of permanently inhabited places, the Faroe Islands have the fewest hours of actual sunshine anywhere in the world. Maybe I ought to rethink that 2015 eclipse trip…
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> [Cite, of sorts.](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_city_in_the_world_gets_the_least_amount_sunshine)
Did you not line up for your spoonful of cod liver oil in the winter?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/45 "2012-12-04T19:26:04Z")
These days, I get into my office before it’s light out, and I leave after the sun has set. I don’t have any windows, so see no daylight at work.
So I figure I’m in the running.
Hello, vitamin D supplements!
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/46 "2012-12-05T03:32:58Z")
Check out Svalbard. The sun set sometime in Aug. and will rise in May.
Today in Montreal it rose at 7:18 and set at 4:11. It will set at 4:11 for the next week or so, but before the end of the year it will rise at 7:34 and do that for a couple weeks, while the sunset time will gradually get later. Today was 1’20’’ shorter than yesterday.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/47 "2012-12-05T06:52:20Z")
> [@Floater](#):
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> Hammerfest (I couldn’t find any figures for Tromsø, but the difference is negligible):
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> Sunrise 20th January 2013 11.09
> Sunset 21st November 11.38
> Length of day 0
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> I think there’s one helluva difference between St Petersburg and Tromsø and not so much between Umeå and Tromsø. 😉
Has my brain hit a bad sector, or are you seriously saying that daylight in Hammerfest/Tromsø lasts for 11 months?
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/48 "2012-12-05T07:03:49Z")
Sunset = November
Sunrise = January
That’s two (very long, very depressing) months, even using new math.
On the plus side, the kids get a day off school when the sun comes up.
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/49 "2012-12-05T10:53:32Z")
Thank you, I know I was a bit unclear. And the situation is, of course, reversed in Summer with two months of sunshine (when it isn’t raining).
This is a simplification, but the idea is correct.
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### Author:  [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/50 "2012-12-05T16:02:15Z")
> [@Floater](#):
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> the situation is, of course, reversed in Summer with two months of sunshine ( **when it isn’t raining** ).
Emphasis mine. And not very likely, unless you’re more than average lucky.
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### Author:  [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/51 "2012-12-05T17:11:01Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> The Canadian version of that joke (sort of) - “We have two seasons - winter and construction.” 🙂
The version I’ve heard is that we do have four seasons up here in northern canada, there’s almost winter, winter, still fucking winter, and construction. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/52 "2012-12-05T23:48:55Z")
That works, too - still fucking winter would be the last snowstorm we get in March or April. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/53 "2012-12-06T11:49:29Z")
I once heard a complaint from an African student in Sweden that we only have two seasons: The White Winter and the Green Winter.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-the-least-daylight/642614/54 "2012-12-06T15:46:27Z")
I’m in the middle of the US, so nothing to complain about here (except, you know, that I still wished we had more sunlight).
But just FYI, here’s a few I looked up:
Fairbanks Alaska 10:35 AM 2:49 PM 4h 14m 36s
Whitehorse (Yukon, Canada) 9:52 AM 3:50 PM 5h 57m 51s
Resolute, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada **Down all day**
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway **Down all day**
But the largest one is Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia with 336,137 residents sitting in complete darkness today.
And for comparison
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina 4:53 AM 9:57 PM 17h 04m 51s which is the second southernmost city before you get to Antarctica.
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