Today's definitely not the shortest day of the year. I've been at work since eight, and can assure you it feels like it's about the longest day on record.
Meanwhile one of my car share colleagues wouldn't have it that the sunsets and sunrises were simultaneously getting later last week (and the latter getting later at a faster rate than were the former). I tried to fob him off with "the sun doesn't know what time it is man" but eventually plotted it on a graph during a quiet spell.
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