I consider myself to be a fairly balanced feet on the ground kind of person.
However, when it comes to the winter solstice and the time immediately before and after, I become overly interested in time.
When I was little we did not get daily papers with sun rise and sunset times. I just sensed that the days got shorter and then longer. I did not know how much difference there was.
When I got a daily paper sunrise and sunset times were given.
Now there are detailed charts on line that give you the times down to the second.
Dec. 21: sun rise 8:42 Am : sun set at 4:24 PM. Daylight: 7 hours 41 minutes and 45 seconds The day got shorter by .05 seconds
Dec. 31 sunrise at 8:44 and sunset at 4:31. 7 hours 45 minutes and 59 seconds of daylight. The daytime increased by one minute and one second!
I watch for these changes as I want to see the light come back again. It's intriguing now that these figure are precise enough that the are calculated in seconds.
You can go to a site called timeanddate to see a chart with this info and much more.
