On Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:53:55 UTC+1, jbm wrote:
Summer Solstice today, so I believe.

To try and avoid all the football chat, I am tending to watch the ITV
Evening News at 6pm (at least it is still full length!). On their
weather forecast tonight, the rather pretty presenter said something
along the lines of "Today some of us will experience 16 hours of daylight.."

Huh??? Here in Northampton (coincidently in the middle of England)
sunrise was at 0442, sunset 2129, giving a day length of 16 hours 47
minutes. So who exactly are the "some of us"? As a comparison, figures
for Lerwick in the Shetland Islands (they are part of the UK, aren't
they, and so "some of us") are 0338, 2234, 18 hours 56 minutes.

I know with the footy on at the moment most of the broadcasters think we
should all be English for now, but is it really fair that English time
should be forced on the other 3 nations of this country of ours.

Anyway, what is the exact definition of "daylight hours"?

jim, Northampton

You could hear similar stuff on Radio 4 but there they are so incompetent that the presenter, for want of a better word, made it sound as if only some of us would get the 16 hours daylight just as only some of us would get showers, say, or a sea breeze. Sometimes their sheer daftness baffles me - it's as if they can't even read the right labels on the drawers marked "Assorted Clichés - Use Freely". Who will be the first to come up with "back-to-back thunderstorms"? I've already seen "back-to-back" in The Guardian, of all places. These are End Times.

Tudor Hughes.