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Dusk Dawns Noticeably Earlier Each Night In Schwenksville, Pennsylvania Yup

Dusk dawns noticeably earlier each night in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania - yup Which trend will continue some days before winter solstice 2021 in Northern Hemisphere, Tuesday, December 21 10:58 AM. Yes, interestingly enough earliest sunset date(s) along eastern United States will occur December 7 and 8, 2021 at 4:28 pm EST. Similar respective phenomena takes place across globe. Winter solstice constitutes shortest day of the year in terms of daylight, but does not have latest sunrise nor earliest sunset of the year. This prevails because discrepancy exists between modern-day timekeeping methods and how time is measured using the Sun known as the equation of time. The equation of time comprises east or west component of the analemma, a curve representing angular offset of the Sun from its mean position on celestial sphere as viewed from Earth. I thoroughly enjoy onset of early darkness unperturbed courtesy seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Alas and alack matter of fact yours truly optimally thrives when pitch black skies immerse bookworm as impetus to crack open a novel and/or read one of my favorite (MAD) magazines versus basking in sunshine which doth distract, thus I while away hours appeasing sixty plus shades of gray (cerebral) matter processing criteria at greased lightning speed considerably faster than once venerably touted supreme ENIAC, whereby mine figurative pistons incalculably subvert additional superfluous irrelevant flack spurring me to burrow deep inside invisible gunnysack cause ordinary stress I could not hack conveniently latched onto ninety sixties counterculture mantra "turn on, tune in, drop out" popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966 essentially only in body not spirit throughout academic foray, I occupied space and time paid dear price, cuz submissive behavior heavily did impact writer of these words a jejune Jack, who during formative years never dated, nor got jilted cuz he possessed unquestioned unhealthy uncanny fealty and deadly eating disorder body dysmorphia knack positive image of self I lack, an existence punctuated by one after another panic attack.

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