Good news! Last night was the earliest sunset of the year in Albany. Sunset was a 4:22 PM yesterday. Today the sunset will be about 25 seconds later, for a sunset time of 4:23 PM. Daylight will be added slowly everyday to the end of the day, starting at about half a minute, accelerating to about two minutes by the first day of spring.

To be fair, daylight will be decreasing every day until about December 20th and won’t start growing until December 24th but the loss is in the morning and not in the evening. In the meantime, the sun’s position relative to the atmosphere bending will cause later sunsets.