On Dec 23, 6:10�am, HK wrote:
...are getting longer!

A lot of people don't appreciate that the change occurs in very small
increments at first, and then accelerates as we approach vernal
equinox. The rate of chage decelerates again as we approach the "far
turn" at the summer solstice.

At your latitude, you officially pick up 1 minute tomorrow, but 14
days out you have picked up only a total of 8 minutes additional
dayling.
Contrast that rate of change with the increase in daylight between the
2nd and third month......two months from now you will enjoy 1 hour and
37 minutes more daylight, and just a month later you will be enjoying
just six minutes shy of 3 more hours than today. Your difference at
the Summer Solstice will be 5 hours and 32 minutes more daylight than
yesterday.


Charts and graphs for your general locale:

http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/ba...-maryland.html