patterns of dawn and dusk why the current system serves the majority so badly visually to get people...
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Patterns of Dawn and Dusk
• Why the current system serves the majority so badly
• Visually to get people to understand – they don’t at the moment
• We can’t change the times of nature but we can change when we experience them
Phil Dickinson
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The charts and animations that follow have been developed by plotting sunrise and sunset times for winter and summer solstice 2010 onto a UK town map and drawing in lines of approximate equal time (isochronic I believe!). They might not be accurate to the minute but I would be surprised if any were more than 5 minutes out.
Mid-Summer Sunrise – How dawn approaches(Less difference between major population areas)
(Click or use right arrow to run through animation.)
Mid-Summer Sunrise – Local Time(Less difference between major population areas)
And it’s VERY early, what a waste of time.One can get up early but nothing is open
and our social structures are not geared to it.
05:03
04:48
04:41
04:24
04:09
Mid-Summer Sunset – How Darkness Approaches
(Big impact on major population areas)
Mid-Summer Sunset – Local Time
21:23
22:30
21:53
21:33
22:11
Mid-Summer Sunset – How Darkness Approaches
and Local Time
21:23
22:30
21:53
21:33
22:11
Mid-Summer Sunset – Local Time
(Or how we close an hour earlier than Europe,
and major population areas plunged into darkness early)
•Lille
•Paris
•Rotterdam
Strasbourg-
21:20
21:33
21:50
22:03
22:30
21:3521:58
22:05
22:04
UK Local22:45
UK Local23:00
UK Local23:10
Mid-Winter Sunrise – Local Time
08:02
09:01
08:27
08:12
08:43
•30 minutes covers most of UK pop•1 hour between extremes of location
Mid-Winter Sunset – Local Time(Less difference between major population areas)
•All would enjoy the benefit of an extra hour in the evening
16:20
16:08
15:55
15:48
15:29
Working Day and Day/NightSummer Months
Current System
Proposed System
WasteDifficult esp.Outdoors
BetterAlignment
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Sleep SleepCommute and WorkSocial & Recreational
Dark DarkLight
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Sleep SleepCommute and WorkSocial & Recreational
Dark DarkLight