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Time of the year’s earliest sunset (web.archive.org)
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[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Are those "rays" physical or caused by timezones?

[-] Ghost33313@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Remember that the world is tilted as it rotates. The "rays" are from the earth's rotation at an angle changing the sundown time on an axis.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Also the Mercator projection is infamously inaccurate. I'm surprised the straight lines are straight, actually.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is absolutely not Mercator (otherwise, meridians would be all vertical and the Polar Circle a straight horizontal boundary), and the diagonal lines do not quite appear straight.

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