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  2. December solstice - Wikipedia

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    The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.

  3. Solstice - Wikipedia

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    June solstice and December solstice refer to the months of year in which they take place, [18] with no ambiguity as to which hemisphere is the context. They are still not universal, however, as not all cultures use a solar-based calendar where the solstices occur every year in the same month (as they do not in the Islamic calendar and Hebrew ...

  4. Winter solstice - Wikipedia

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    December [6] year day time day time day time day time 2020 20: 03:50: 20: 21:43 ... the winter solstice has been celebrated as one of the Twenty-four Solar Terms ...

  5. Winter solstice: The shortest day and longest night of the year

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    A man walks on a bridge in the faint light of sunset in Tokyo on December 20, 2022. Residents of Japan's capital city will get nine hours and 44 minutes of daylight on winter solstice.

  6. Winter Solstice 2024: Don’t worry, the shortest day of the ...

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    This year, it falls on Saturday 21 December at 9:21am, while the sun is expected to set at 3:51pm. This means there will be 7 hours 49 minutes and 42 seconds of daylight. That means it is 8 hours ...

  7. When and what is the winter solstice? Things to know about ...

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    The days are short and the nights are long. That can only mean one thing: The winter solstice is coming. The first day of winter for the northern hemisphere of Earth will begin on Dec. 21 at ...

  8. Solar calendar - Wikipedia

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    The oldest solar calendars include the Julian calendar and the Coptic calendar. They both have a year of 365 days, which is extended to 366 once every four years, without exception, so have a mean year of 365.25 days. As solar calendars became more accurate, they evolved into two types.

  9. Tropical year - Wikipedia

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    A tropical year or solar year (or tropical period) ... Between two December solstices: 365.242 883: 365.242 740: Mean tropical year (Laskar's expression) 365.242 310: ...