Re: shortest day

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on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:19:43 GMT
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"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: Igor wrote:
: >
: > On Dec 19, 11:48 pm, aark...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
: > > Hi all,
: > >
: > > I recently read in a book that december 22 is the shortest day in a
: > > year, to what extent this is true..???
: > >
: > > 1) is there any scientific basis for this claim ?
: >
: > No day is any shorter than any other. They're all 24 hours long.
:
: Daylight duration is shortest at the solstices, twice/year. One is
: ever amazed that Yahweh and his three religions are astoundingly
: incapable of assembling a decent calendar.
:
: Russia's October Revolution was in November, Israel's calendar has
: whole leap months, and the Muslim calendar is beneath contempt.

Gregorian: adjusted solar calendar
Russian: unadjusted solar calendar
Israel: intercalated lunar
Muslim: was intercalated lunar, now pure lunar

:

Look out window.
See big white ball in sky.
When big white ball has gone, note time.
Keep looking out window.
When big white ball reappears, note time.
Repeat daily.

And how does one note the time without a timepiece? The Romans
in particular didn't know how to make wristwatches or even
grandfather clocks.

They might have known about clepsydras, which the Egyptians
invented circa 1400 BC, although Babylon might have had one even
earlier.


Baron Victor von Frankenstein's personal assistant thinks there are no
nights.



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