# It's dawn - at 8.50 am **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422 "2018-12-20T14:49:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/21 "2018-12-21T19:33:36Z")
Sunrise: 9:20 am. (this alone means nothing given time zones are somewhat arbitrary) Sunset: 2:51 pm. Day length: 5 hours 31 minutes. But it’s cloudy anyways so I wouldn’t see the sun even if it was up. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/22 "2018-12-22T05:11:37Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > **Northern Piper** is at roughly 50.5N. I’m at about 52.1. But we’re also in a bit of a geographical oddity where we’re effectively DST year round. Official sunrise here today was 9:13 but sunset wasn’t till 4:56 which puts local solar noon at 1:05pm (bit earlier for **Piper** who’s also a bit east of me. Singapore (1.3521°) Winter solstice - sunrise 7:02 am, sunset 7:05 pm. Spring equinox - sunrise 7:08 am, sunset 7:15 pm. Basically a 12 hour “day” year round. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/23 "2018-12-22T06:12:53Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > One of the oddest experiences of my life was walking around Edmonton at 10 PM in late June and seeing the sun out while the streets were deserted and all the stores closed. Alberta winters can be cruel, but one of the saving graces of living here is that it is light enough long enough to get in a full 18 holes after work during the summer months. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/24 "2018-12-22T07:15:11Z")
Ahhh, my bi-annual gloat. Being a southern-hemispherite, today was our summer solstice with sunrise around 5.50am and sunset at 8.47pm. Shiver in ya boots Northerners. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/25 "2018-12-22T07:36:58Z")
Sunrise was at 8:04 AM, sunset was at 4:15. I’m near Vancouver. The times don’t matter because it’s been mostly raining. Yesterday, for variety, we got a hellacious windstorm that took out the famous White Rock Pier by driving a bunch of good sized boats through it. There’s now about a hundred feet of it missing. I’m not going to miss going to work in the dark and going home in the dark! Bring on the Solstice! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/26 "2018-12-22T13:12:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Alberta winters can be cruel, but one of the saving graces of living here is that it is light enough long enough to get in a full 18 holes after work during the summer months. I have a friend whose husband was a meteoroligist in the USAF. They spent 3-1/2 years in Fairbanks, Alaska. She told me that on the first day of summer, the longest day of the year, the post had a softball game at midnight. The field had no lights because it didn’t need any. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422/27 "2018-12-22T14:57:43Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > Stop complaining. > > The people who live in Barrow, Alaska last saw any sun light at all November 18th at around 1:45 pm. > > They won’t see any sun light for the next 65 days! In other words it will be dark until January 22 and then the sun will “shine” for only for 57 minutes. I’ve never had it that bad. When I was in Iceland the sun would rise about 11:30 and set about three. Since I was in a windowless building unless I made a deliberate trip to look out of the door, I never saw the sun but for the weekends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dawn-at-8-50-am/826422.md?page=1)