The nights are getting lighter.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

Just off to bed now but tonight has been a party night and a good party it was. Night all💤

And up to catch the most beautiful sunrise. Best part of the day.

[Omegstrat6]

Not until December 25th. A lot of people think it gets lighter after December 21st, but that's not correct. The Sun reaches it's lowest point of it's trajectory on the 21st, it stays like that for three days, and then starts it's return projectory on Christmas Day.
And so the Sun died on the ( southern) cross, remained dead for three days and then rose again.
It's the winter solstice when the ancients brought greenery into their homes, and lit fires to try and return to spring.
The Christians stole it with their fairy tales.

Trying to remember now but didn't the early Christian Roman Emperors set the supposed date of Christ's birth as the 25th Dec. as it happened to be an already established festival of Saturn?

[Omegstrat6]

And up to catch the most beautiful sunrise. Best part of the day.

Must admit that watching the dawn break is one of the pleasures of nature. Mind you, it's been a hell of a long time since I partied all night until dawn!😶 When I used to work days, another part of the year I enjoyed most was when you first start to drive home after work and it is light again after the winter months and you know that you can get home and chill in the garden with a beer in the evening.🍺

[WBA1955]

Trying to remember now but didn't the early Christian Roman Emperors set the supposed date of Christ's birth as the 25th Dec. as it happened to be an already established festival of Saturn?

Something like that, Constantine was the first Christian emperor.
If Christ was born at all it would have been around Easter when the shepherds were watching their flocks during lambing. But the Christians nicked that off the Pagans calendar as well. I think Constantine just wanted to control the Christians as they had become a nuisance.
Although the nights seem long here in the winter in the pagan Scandinavia it would be twenty four hours of darkness, and they were afraid that the sun might never return. Hence the fires, greenery and everything else that we associate with Yule.

[mickd1961]

Not until December 25th. A lot of people think it gets lighter after December 21st, but that's not correct. The Sun reaches it's lowest point of it's trajectory on the 21st, it stays like that for three days, and then starts it's return projectory on Christmas Day.
And so the Sun died on the ( southern) cross, remained dead for three days and then rose again.
It's the winter solstice when the ancients brought greenery into their homes, and lit fires to try and return to spring.
The Christians stole it with their fairy tales.

It is lighter in an evening though, the sun has been going down a tad later each day for the last three or 4 days.

I check the sunset times every day because I go out to run every afternoon and there’s no street lighting and I aim to be back before the sun goes down.

Sundown was at 15.54 a few days ago here where I live and it’s 15.57 today and 15.58 tomorrow.

By definition it’s lighter at night than it was last week!

[WBA1955]

It is lighter in an evening though, the sun has been going down a tad later each day for the last three or 4 days.

I check the sunset times every day because I go out to run every afternoon and there’s no street lighting and I aim to be back before the sun goes down.

Sundown was at 15.54 a few days ago here where I live and it’s 15.57 today and 15.58 tomorrow.

By definition it’s lighter at night than it was last week!

It might seem it but it isn't. Tonight, tomorrow and Friday are the shortest days of winter, on Saturday it gets lighter again. Two minutes a day.

[mickd1961]

It might seem it but it isn't. Tonight, tomorrow and Friday are the shortest days of winter, on Saturday it gets lighter again. Two minutes a day.

I’m not talking about shortest days Des.

The sun set today in my area at 15.57pm and tomorrow it sets at 15.58pm.

On the 17th it set at 15.55pm.

It’s unequivocal that it’s getting dark 2-3 minutes later in the day than it was on the 17th.

Also, today ( 22nd of Dec ) gave us 2 more seconds actual daylight than we had yesterday.

I’ll send you the chart by Messenger Des, it’ll give you something to do!