Sunset at 4.36pm: Perth Office Workers Begin Annual Ritual of Never Seeing Daylight on a Weekday
Days are now shorter than a council meeting about car parking. Vitamin D tablets sold out in one Perth pharmacy, possibly.
The sun, photographed while it was still around. Photo: Rob Burke, “Perth at sunset - geograph.org.uk - 1926756”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
The sun set in Perth today at 4.36pm, and will set a couple of minutes earlier each day from now until late December, a fact that office workers across the city have begun to take personally.
“I come in when it’s barely light, I leave when it’s dark,” said a man who works in an office on Atholl Street. “The only daylight I see is through the window during a Teams call. I’ve started waving at it.”
The Met Office says today’s long sunny spells are a good opportunity to get outside at lunchtime. Several employers have been asked to introduce a statutory “go and stand in the sun” break.
Perth’s seagulls, by contrast, seem untroubled by the shorter days, having switched to a nocturnal chip-stealing schedule some years ago.
The real story: Perth forecast (Met Office)
Letters to the Editor
The views expressed are those of the reader, and frankly that's on them.
No letters yet. The town is uncharacteristically quiet.
Write to the Editor