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TIL The sunrise/set duration changes throughout the year (lemmy.ml)
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This forum answer included these cool graphs and a good explanation.

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/12824/how-long-does-a-sunrise-or-sunset-take/13053#13053

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's interesting. I built a weather app for Android earlier in the year and started noticing that each day, the sunrise and sunset changed by roughly one minute.

I never noticed that before.