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Checking the weather in those brazilian cities where the WC 2014 is played, i noticed that the northeastern corner of Brazil also has very early sunset times.
Try Central and East Java (including Yogyakarta), Indonesia. Similar latitude and timezone-solar time offset, the times are similar!!!
Banyuwangi, Indonesia time is copycat of Recife's!!!
Personally I think Britain should be on BST (UT+1) all year round, without changing the clocks twice a year. That would keep summer sunsets as they are but shift them to more sociable times in the winter. Id rather have it dark at 9am than 4pm, if I had to choose.
Even as it stands, Britain (and the EU) makes one big mistake, the clocks go forward at least a month too late. In late October when they go back the sun is well south of the equator, and days last about 10 hours here. The same situation arises in mid February, yet we don't move them forward till the end of March by which time the sun is rising before 6am.
February is the latest solar noons. So sunrise is still "lagging" while sunset is close to spring-like times
Due to the IDL bulge around Kiribati, it's possible to observe three different days around the world at the same moment.
And because of the hammer-like shape of that bulge you can travel west along the equator and need to substract one day at Kiribati's western border.
Conversely, if you travel from Russia (after 8 pm) to Alaska you are already on the same day.
Chatham islands NZ use a quarter timezone offset, but it's Off about 1/2 hours (1 1/2 in summer)
If they want quarter offset for accuracy to the solar time, the most accurate is UTC+12:15 (instead of UTC+12:45 and DST UTC+13:45 like now)
But I think they could use UTC+12 like the rest of NZ. It's more accurate to solar time compared to UTC+12:45
Japan has very early sunsets and sunrises, especially in summer since it does not observe daylight saving.
Even in the most northernmost place on the island of Hokkaido (Wakkanai) the lastest sunset is at 7:26 pm on summer solstice- and Wakkanai lies on the 45th latitude.
It maybe explain the good habit of early-rising there.
Maybe it's the reason for most Muslim countries not having DST, because their day are (most) governed by the prayer times, that comes from sunrise/set and twilight times.
They get up at dawn (before sunrise) to do the dawn prayer, so no waste because of summer early sunrises.
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