{"id":7570,"date":"2012-08-09T18:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2012-08-31T00:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T07:57:04","slug":"california-beach-sunset-days-are-getting-shorter-one-minute-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beach-sunset-days-are-getting-shorter-one-minute-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"California Beach Sunset &#8211; Days Are Getting Shorter, One Minute Per Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/2surfes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baby, it&#8217;s hot outside, but the days are getting shorter, a minute per day. On August 9 the sun goes down at 7:46 p.m. in California&#8217;s most populated areas, and the length our daylight lasting roughly 13 hours and 30 minutes on this day. As each days passes, the sun sets a minute earlier than the day before, till we reach our shortest day of the year in December. At Winter Solstice around December 21 the sun sets at approx. 4:45 p.m. and there are just under 12 hours of daylight.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you drive in the evening the sun can impair your vision and ability to see traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Catching a sunset on the way home from work or errands may become a challenge, depending on your schedule.<\/li>\n<li>Taking pictures of favorite locations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/directory.html\">California piers<\/a> requires adjustment and planning for the seasons. On-location filming and photo shoots also require time adjustments for critical lighting.<\/li>\n<li>For romantic sunset dinner dates or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/inspirational-view-dining-in-california\/\">inspirational view dining<\/a>, check one of the online sunset calculators available at websites such as timeanddate.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby, it&#8217;s hot outside, but the days are getting shorter, a minute per day. On August 9 the sun goes down at 7:46 p.m. in California&#8217;s most populated areas, and the length our daylight lasting roughly 13 hours and 30 minutes on this day. As each days passes, the sun sets a minute earlier than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}