It does make sense...but what's odd is that I *know* that in the summer, it gets light extremely early. Maybe it's that I'm thinking of when sunrise is just getting close, not when it's actually *above the horizon*...but a sunrise time of after 6AM in mid-summer seems heinously off to me. I'll have to pay a lot more attention to it this coming summer.
And yea, that does make sense, but what I had thought is that while days would be getting shorter closer to the equator, they would be approaching a sort of standard day, the standard being how long that a day would be on the equator. And I figured that'd be longer than what you were saying: because you said that days never last longer than 8PM, but I know that when I was in Mexico it was still 9 and lightish out. I think part of the discrepancy comes from the fact that when I talk about these things I refer to "dawn" as around when the sky gets really light, which isn't necessarily at the time of sunrise: it can be up to a half hour before it. It might also have to do with elevation above sea level; in Mexico, I was in the mountains, so maybe that had something to do with how late it stayed light out.
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And yea, that does make sense, but what I had thought is that while days would be getting shorter closer to the equator, they would be approaching a sort of standard day, the standard being how long that a day would be on the equator. And I figured that'd be longer than what you were saying: because you said that days never last longer than 8PM, but I know that when I was in Mexico it was still 9 and lightish out. I think part of the discrepancy comes from the fact that when I talk about these things I refer to "dawn" as around when the sky gets really light, which isn't necessarily at the time of sunrise: it can be up to a half hour before it.
It might also have to do with elevation above sea level; in Mexico, I was in the mountains, so maybe that had something to do with how late it stayed light out.