Patterns of Dawn and Dusk

• Why the current system serves the majority so badly

• Visually to get people to understand – they don’t at the moment

• We can’t change the times of nature but we can change when we experience them

Phil Dickinson

07973 287789phil@people-developments.co.uk

The charts and animations that follow have been developed by plotting sunrise and sunset times for winter and summer solstice 2010 onto a UK town map and drawing in lines of approximate equal time (isochronic I believe!). They might not be accurate to the minute but I would be surprised if any were more than 5 minutes out.

Mid-Summer Sunrise – How dawn approaches(Less difference between major population areas)

(Click or use right arrow to run through animation.)

Mid-Summer Sunrise – Local Time(Less difference between major population areas)

And it’s VERY early, what a waste of time.One can get up early but nothing is open

and our social structures are not geared to it.

05:03

04:48

04:41

04:24

04:09

Mid-Summer Sunset – How Darkness Approaches

(Big impact on major population areas)

Mid-Summer Sunset – Local Time

21:23

22:30

21:53

21:33

22:11

Mid-Summer Sunset – How Darkness Approaches

and Local Time

21:23

22:30

21:53

21:33

22:11

Mid-Summer Sunset – Local Time

(Or how we close an hour earlier than Europe,

and major population areas plunged into darkness early)

•Lille

•Paris

•Rotterdam

Strasbourg-

21:20

21:33

21:50

22:03

22:30

21:3521:58

22:05

22:04

UK Local22:45

UK Local23:00

UK Local23:10

Mid-Winter Sunrise – Local Time

08:02

09:01

08:27

08:12

08:43

•30 minutes covers most of UK pop•1 hour between extremes of location

Mid-Winter Sunset – Local Time(Less difference between major population areas)

•All would enjoy the benefit of an extra hour in the evening

16:20

16:08

15:55

15:48

15:29

Working Day and Day/NightSummer Months

Current System

Proposed System

WasteDifficult esp.Outdoors

BetterAlignment

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Sleep SleepCommute and WorkSocial & Recreational

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Sleep SleepCommute and WorkSocial & Recreational

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