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im in south florida, and the biggest thing i noticed was the difference from when i lived in ny. because south florid is farther west, the sun goes down even later and in the north east, we have sun past 9pm in the peak of summer.

Uh, It's not East and West that affects daylight, its North and South. The big differences being farther from the equator.

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Uh, It's not East and West that affects daylight, its North and South. The big differences being farther from the equator.[/quote]

East and west makes a difference. Think about it. The earth doesn't spin north south. Yes the total time the sun is up does Make a difference from north south but not as much as as late as it's sets from being Farther west in the same time zone.

Guys I believe it is actually the tilt of the Earth on it's axis in relation to a North/South orientation that causes the variation in the seasons and the amount of sunlight received at a particular location. East and West have little to do with it since each point on the globe that lies on the same line of latitude receives precisely the same amount of sunlight. As you travel further north in the Northern Hemisphere during Summer you will find the amount of sunlight received is more, due to the Northern Hemisphere being tilted towards the Sun during these months (hence the phenomenon of the "Midnight Sun" in the Arctic reagions). The opposite is true then when we have Winter since now the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun so that the Sunlight received in the North is less and is greater in the South.

The Sun does set later for individuals in the same time zone and this is due to the earth's rotation from East to West but it is the man-made convention of time that causes this. Each location (along a particular latitude) has received the same amount of sunlight during the day although the sunrise and sunset occured at different times for each.


Elwyn

I spent five minutes last night trying to put this coherently before I realised I was too tired to make proper sense, but this is spot on, AFAIK.

Up here in Vancouver, same thing. Dark when you leave, dark when you come home. I work in a building with no direct windows. It's gloomy and depressing. But on the bright side, it rains for months on end and you don't have to shovel rain.

Further to the N S E W topic is concerned no matter where you are any alterations to extra date and time alterations involves the manual adjustment of the watch workings.
This seems to be a contention in many forums for pieces that cost a lot of money,you would think by now we would have the fully automatic mechanical watch.
It obviously shows how much i know about the workings of my particular watch, zero , but if the watch itself which is a beautiful piece of engineering from scratch and has been that way for years,you would have thought by now the mechanical side would have been improved to accommodate the automatic date and time adjustments .........to the uninitiated it does seem a lot of money to pay for a basic design that only does the basics.......or could i be wrong??

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IMO Yes you are wrong. You are not paying for performance, you are buying emotion. There are plenty of watches a fraction the cost of a Ling that communicate with atomic clocks several times a day to maintain strict accuracy. I would say it's beyond a smart business move to engineer a feature in a watch that is not consistent across even a small portion of the market. Again JMHO!