Daylight

As I go slowly insane while analyzing data, I find myself wanting to analyze more data. Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. military, I can fulfill these caprices. I have concocted a few graphs to illustrate daylight in the different places where I've lived. These graphs do not include the effects of weather. Note that southern CT is not included, as it has roughly the same longitude as Cedar Rapids, IA.

First up is a graph of minutes of daylight per day versus time of year.


Delft gets over 1,000 minutes of daylight per day in the middle of the summer. Or, rather, the cloud-layer over Delft gets this daylight. Boston and Cedar Rapids only have small differences in daylight per day.

I was wondering how much less daylight Delft gets per year than Iowa, and to my surprise, Delft gets more daylight!




The second graph is a zoom of the previous graph. As you can see, Delft gets roughly one more day of daylight each year than Cedar Rapids and Boston.

I am looking forward to the days following the Equinox here. One thousand minutes of daylight. Sounds like a novel.

From the Department of "Brings Tears to My Eyes"

A man laments the good old days he had with a BSD box:

...but I always kept a screen(1) session running with you.