Hi

Just wondered does Canada have similar hours of sunshine and darkness that we do in the UK. For example winter here the sun only shines from 8 till 3.30 and in the summer 5.30-10.30.

I guess we are on a similar longitude

That's about right for Toronto, I don't see daylight on weekdays in the winter. I wish they'd leave the clocks on the summer setting.

Toronto is actually much further south than the UK, on the same latitude as Rome

No gulf stream though.

In the depths of winter, the sun rises around 8 and sets around 4....

i did some sums a while back and toronto has about 45 mins more daylight than england in the winter, and less in the summer

Here are sunrise and sunset times on the summer and winter solstices.

Some Canadian cities:
Some British cities:
You can look up more sunrise and sunset times here

Didn't Bush sign something about extending DST by a month-ish starting next year, and Canada was swithering about following suit? Can't remember details and can't search at the moment...

I did hear something like that. Also that Indiana is going to have a different time in each county but I didn't pay a lot of attention. I always find out about the clock changes the day after they happen anyway.

Yep .... it's going to be first Sunday in Nov --- Second Sunday in March, representing a total of 4 more weeks of DST. Ontario and Quebec have signed on. It would have started this year but the US wanted to give Canada time to ratify it also (believe it or not!!) -- Time is administered locally not federally in Canada and could have been done this year if they had known. Still, it's going to start in 2007.

Most of Indiana has never had DST.

Manitoba too - I'm sure it was on local news I heard of it. Saskatchewan doesn't do DST at all.

As you say, we don't alter our clocks. I guess its darker later in the morning, but then right now its 5.22 and it looks like this outside:



(just noticed my dog's tail in the bottom of the pic!!)

The evenings are definitely getting lighter longer .... when we had tree lights outdoors on timer at Christmas we had them coming on at 4.15pm, but now looking out the window and the sun is till up, but the chinook cloud is going a very pretty pink!

In my experience there are a lot more hours of sunshine here than the UK. Where do you live in the UK to get those hours of sunshine, a tanning salon?

I suspect you mean daylight hours. London and Calgary are similar.

lol....well 'sunshine' is what gives us daylight - even if it is hiding in the clouds

Tonight here in Edmonton, the sun set at around 5.25pm, which isn't bad for January I don't think. What time is it setting back in the UK now??

its dark when i leave work at 5, and as we dont have windows i dont know what happens before that!