A Swiftly Tilting Planet
By Margaret Lyons in Miscellaneous on Sep 18, 2008 10:02PM
Photo by Viqi French
We're going to be losing 83 minutes of daylight in the next month. Jeebus. We've already lost about three hours of light since the days started getting shorter at the end of June, and we'll continue our descent into darkness until this year's winter solstice, which comes December 21. Perhaps those numbers make you notice we're losing more daylight this month than the previous three--you're right! Daylight, not near either pole, is a sinusoidal function. [WGN]