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Time of the year’s earliest sunset (web.archive.org)
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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

Going south makes the earliest sunset happen later (because every sunset happens at the same time at the equator) and going west within a timezone makes it happen later too (since the sunset moves from east to west). Put those together and you get the diagonals.

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