On "absolute noon" (which is what I call noon without taking daylight savings time into account), you will have to look directly upwards to see the sun throughout most of the world. This gets skewed when you get close to the poles, and gets more accurate as you get closer to the equator. For most of "habitable" Canada, Russia, Sweden, etc. the sun will be directly skyward for the most part at that time. Daylight savings time considered, the sun will be skewed at most 15 degrees. the sun compared to the horizon in this picture is skewed about 75 degrees at minimum, so the error is not even close to negligible.
However, everything I said breaks down if you decide to think of this guy as an Alaskan who does not mind the cold whatsoever.
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29 Dec, 2014, 7:55 am
Hmm... not even with shortened days or daylight savings or any o' that?
29 Dec, 2014, 8:12 am
On "absolute noon" (which is what I call noon without taking daylight savings time into account), you will have to look directly upwards to see the sun throughout most of the world. This gets skewed when you get close to the poles, and gets more accurate as you get closer to the equator. For most of "habitable" Canada, Russia, Sweden, etc. the sun will be directly skyward for the most part at that time. Daylight savings time considered, the sun will be skewed at most 15 degrees. the sun compared to the horizon in this picture is skewed about 75 degrees at minimum, so the error is not even close to negligible.
However, everything I said breaks down if you decide to think of this guy as an Alaskan who does not mind the cold whatsoever.