That's how much daylight we get today - on the winter solstice. It's actually only one of a few days of very similar length (i.e. within a minute of each other). Sunrise is at 07h34, sunset at 17h06.
For comparison, Brisbane gets 10 hours, 24 minutes of daylight today.
Just as well we're not in Invercargill - they only get 8 hours, 40 minutes of daylight today!
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oh...it's nice to know the actual hours we are in daylight:) ummm..how did u find it out? it would be great if i could monitor the the length of daylight everyday over a year...
ReplyDeleteMmm... I didn't post a link to my source for this one! For the lucky few cities in NZ that are listed here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rasnz.org.nz/SRSStimes.htm
Extrapolating those times for other cities is generally close enough. The one I actually used is from the US Navy: you enter the coordinates for a place, and it tells you sunrise and sunset times:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one-year-world
Enjoy! :)