Eh? You've had an extra 5 mins since 22nd Dec, spread out between morning and evening.
The days only really start getting noticeboard longer around mid March. Definitely when the clocks change to British Sensible Time.
ha ha, Del Usory is the perfect poster name for you! As hobbes pointed out, the duration of today's daylight is only around five minutes longer than on 22 Dec (in fact longer by 5 mins 25 seconds). I'll give you an extra second as it's 5 mins 26 seconds longer than the shortest day, 21 Dec. I'm guessing that you have looked only at the sunset times and noticed that sunset is around 10 mins later than the earliest sunsets in the 11 to 15 December period, but overlooked the fact that the sunrise today is seven minutes later than the latest sunrise in that period. At this time of year the centering of the day is shifting back, which is why the earliest sunset is around 13 Dec, several days before the shortest day, whilst the latest sunrise is around now-ish, several days after the shortest day.
It's interesting how the sunrise time has hardly changed since the solstice but sunset is later every day. 4pm sunset yesterday, one tiny milestone on our way back to the light....
Guy is saying that where he lives the sun is now setting 10 minutes later than it was in mid-December. This is correct.
hobbes and EEG are saying that daytime has in fact only increased by 5-6 minutes since mid-December, as sunset is indeed about 10 minutes later, but sunrise is also getting later at this time of year which eats into the daytime increase. This is also correct.
The "dispute" is due to people talking at cross-purposes.
The thread title is presumably referring to the fact that this phenomenon started happening on either (depending on which of the two metrics you care about) the 13th or the 21st of December, so the thread is late in reporting this news to us.
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