xkcd telling it like it is

[conuly]

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2792:_Summer_Solstice

Happy summer!

Comments

[adafrog]

I had no idea there was a discrepancy.

[conuly]

I found out a few years ago and thought it was really weird at the time! And the way it works seems super unintuitive to me, too, especially if you compare sunrise and sunset times in different places, even in the same hemisphere.

[adafrog]

*shakes head at weirdness*