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It was the case before WW2. Spain and France were on GMT, the Neterlands on GMT+0:20. After the war, the clocks haven't been shifted back.
If you want 11 pm sunsets and 6 am sunrises, your ideal city is bound to be in the wrong timezone, by quite a margin. Somewhere like Tuymazy, Russia, 55N-54E on GMT+6.
Well then you should move back because you are on the wrong timezone.
I feel that Spain at least should be on the same timezone as me. They are well past their natural timezone and with Portugal and the Canary islands on GMT it seems stupid.
Once you go north of 55 degrees north latitude you will gain a lot more hours of low intensity daylight per increment of distance northwards...
And if not already twilight, that even faster. This extra length of day is daylight with a very low sun angle...
It's a question of when you look at the horizon, how many longitudes of the Tropic of Cancer fall within your viewable sky.... Where once you reach arctic circle the farthest possible point on the Tropic of Cancer is viewable by traveling north...over the pole...which then becomes south...down other side of the world to Tropic of Cancer
Hence a due north sun at the darkest time of day
As you get nearer to arctic circle you gain glimpse of much more Tropic of Cancer, as well as a lot of the circle of 22 degrees north , 21, 20, 19, sun is now directly gliding over 18.4 degrees north latitude and moving about 1 degree of longitude westwards every 4 minutes.
Interestingly , every latitude sees the same % of the equator. And pointing the compass due west exactly and looking towards that horizon...no matter what latitude you are on, that will always be a point on the equator
And for latitudes south of equator, you can barely see them from the far north of the earth
12:11 here.
The earliest here will be 11:58, early Nov
In winter it is as late as 12:42 so even then we never get pre 12.
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