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25 Feb 2013, 1:49 pm

Can you tell Me what you think the Shortest Day of the Year is.....

A) 20th December
B) 21st December
C) 22nd December
D) 24th December



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25 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm

The answer is B


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25 Feb 2013, 3:31 pm

It depends on several factors (mostly orbital precession and calendar shenanegans (aka 'leap year') whether it's on the 21st or 22nd.

/pedantic.



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25 Feb 2013, 3:38 pm

It also depends on the latitude and longitude of the observer.

People in the southern hemisphere would see their "shortest day" of the year on or around June 21st.

And by "shortest day", I assume that you actually mean "day with fewest hours of solar illumination".



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25 Feb 2013, 4:51 pm

None of the above; I live in Australia.


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25 Feb 2013, 7:36 pm

The winter solstice.

By the way, Bemn, you seem to have two copies of this forum up.