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Frogleg writes:
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| And I thought *I* was the Light Nazi! :-) A look at wunderground.com
| reveals the following sunrise/sunset numbers for today:
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| Cambridge, UK: 8:07 AM GMT 4:02 PM GMT
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| Hampton, VA, USA: 7:19 AM EST 5:03 PM EST
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| Close to 2 hrs difference in sunlight, 'though of course this changes
| as the seasons progress.

It's worse than that. Because the sun is lower in the north,
the light levels are closer to the square of the day length,
so Hampton is getting 45% more light. And that doesn't account
for the absorption effects (cloud and otherwise), which could
easily make that 45% into 90%.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.