# Winter Solstice is on Friday if... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597 "2007-12-19T17:54:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597/41 "2007-12-21T01:09:26Z")
Lucky me, I get to work the 26th, 27th and 28th. But there won’t be many people there (or bosses) so I can drag my ass in a little late! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597/42 "2007-12-21T14:43:06Z")
[QUOTE=Fear the Turtle] Not to rain on anyone’s parade but the days will not start getting longer until Dec 27 (at least at my lat (34 deg 42’)). [/QUOTE] Not correct. The earliest sunset in the middle latitudes is in early December, and the latest sunrise is in early January, but the shortest day is the day of the solstice. ---
**Author:** ![Snowcarpet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowcarpet/32/257_2.png) [@Snowcarpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowcarpet)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597/43 "2007-12-21T15:02:56Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Oh please! As _if_ we would dance around a fire naked. Are you crazy?! It’s fricking \*cold \*out there, man! Naked dancing is reserved for summer months only. And the chicken usually comes from KFC. [/QUOTE] Unless, of course, we make a giant chicken effigy, shove it on a stick, burn it ritually, and dance nekkid around it 😛 Phoenix, the other other other white meat. And, yum, roasted smoked salmon… Regardless, Happy Solstice to all! I’m headed off to an all-night vigil (no way I’ll be welcoming the dawn though…) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597/44 "2007-12-21T15:13:32Z")
For everyone who is celebrating Solstice today, wishing you a safe and happy Solstice… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597/45 "2007-12-21T18:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Not correct. The earliest sunset in the middle latitudes is in early December, and the latest sunrise is in early January, but the shortest day is the day of the solstice. [/QUOTE] Well, the site I went to ([http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa\_rstablew.pl](http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_rstablew.pl)) gives sunrise and sunsets times that calculate out to 9 hrs 50 min of daylight from 12/16 thru 12/26. It gives the times down to the minute, not second, so I guess the 23 thru 26 are fractional minutes longer than the 22, but I thought it was close enough for MPSIMS (but certainly not GQ). I guess I should correct my post to “..the days will not become a full minute longer until the 27th” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-solstice-is-on-friday-if/430597.md?page=2)