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| Arjun (Jun)
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Warming up; this might have even been asked before...Very early spiolers please email In California, what is the second shortest month in the year? | ||
| Kristoffer Dominique Albeus (Kristoffer)
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emailed. | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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Replied: Nope I'm afraid not. | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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November? | ||
| Kristoffer Dominique Albeus (Kristoffer)
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We also have to figure out why, right? Jan? Feb? Mar? Apr? May? Jun? Jul? Aug? Sep? Oct? Nov? Dec? Noypi ka b? | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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Sorry, I was wrong. The second-shortest month is June. June is the shortest of the 30-day months, because then the earth is the farthest from the sun. The earths orbit around the sun is slightly elliptical, which means that it moves the slowest in its orbit when it is the farthest away, which is in June. The direction of earth's rotation about its own axis is the same as the direction in which it orbits the sun. This means that during a year, in which we experience approximately 365 1/4 day, the earth rotates 366 1/4 times about its axis - one rotation is cancelled by earth's orbiting the sun. Since the earth moves faster in its orbit during late northern-hemisphere autumn, winter and early spring, the larger part of the one-day "delay" will come in these months. The smallest proportional part will come in midsummer, which means June. The days of June are a tiny bit shorter than those of, say, December, making the whole month a little bit shorter. | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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Is June a whole hour shorter than usual, though, so that it is shorter than April, when most countries set their clocks forward? | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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By Torgeir Apeland (Abc) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 10:08 am: November? Nope By Kristoffer Dominique Albeus (Kristoffer) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 10:12 am: We also have to figure out why, right? Yes  Jan? Feb? Mar? Apr? May? Jun? Jul? Aug? Sep? Oct? Nov? Dec? Well, I'm wondering if I should answer this question. It is one of these (if that's any consolation), but I'll let you figure out why before giving it away...sorry! You can guess a month if you have an explanation in mind, though Noypi ka b? Huh? Is that Philipino? By Torgeir Apeland (Abc) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:34 am: Sorry, I was wrong. The second-shortest month is June. Interesting explanation. While what you say may be true, we do not account for this while counting the days in June, for example. A unit of time is counted by some radio-active material, so that should not change things. Thanks for the very interesting information, though | ||
| Kristoffer Dominique Albeus (Kristoffer)
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with shortest month, you mean the month with the least number of hours (or minutes or seconds)? or is it the spelling? does it have to do with font? does california refer to the US State? or is it a movie? a song? a poem? (if any).. | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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By Kristoffer Dominique Albeus (Kristoffer) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 05:26 pm: with shortest month, you mean the month with the least number of hours (or minutes or seconds)? Yes or is it the spelling? No does it have to do with font? No does california refer to the US State? This one or is it a movie? a song? a poem? (if any).. | ||
| Ian (Image)
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Would the same month also be shortest in Florida? In Ontario? In British Columbia? In England? In China? In Japan? In Australia? In Brazil? In South Africa? | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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By Ian (Image) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:27 pm: Let's see how many of these I can answer...ns=not sure Would the same month also be shortest in Florida? Yes In Ontario? ns In British Columbia? ns In England? No In China? No In Japan? ns In Australia? In Brazil? In South Africa? No Some comments: This answer will not hold from 2007 onwards, but has nothing to do with geography. The 'no's in the replies above may be for a different reason in each case. | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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By Mosquito (Mosquito) on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 04:29 pm: Is June a whole hour shorter than usual, though, so that it is shorter than April, when most countries set their clocks forward? You pretty much got the idea. Spioler coming up, but if you want to re-do the details just a little bit... | ||
| KB (Angelbabe07)
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I'm not sure if this has n e thing to do wih it but, this year we skipped like a hallf-second in Januray, when we changed to the New year...so is it January? | ||
| Ian (Image)
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No, its because of daylight savings time. I'm not sure which month people set their clocks ahead an hour (Is it March? April?) but this month would have one hour less than all the other months with 30 days. And October would have one hour more. | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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By KB (Angelbabe07) on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 04:51 am: I'm not sure if this has n e thing to do wih it but, this year we skipped like a hallf-second in Januray, when we changed to the New year...so is it January? No, Ian has it... By Ian (Image) on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 07:02 pm: No, its because of daylight savings time. I'm not sure which month people set their clocks ahead an hour (Is it March? April?) but this month would have one hour less than all the other months with 30 days. And October would have one hour more. Yes, well done. In the US, in most states, the clocks are set one hour ahead in April. This means April, which normally has 30 days, has one hour less in the states that follow daylight-saving. But I hear they are going to switch to March from 2007 onwards (and March is when it is done in most parts of Europe I think), so this puzzle won't hold from next year... Thanks to all who participated. ***********SPOILER************************ | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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* Banging head into screen * |
