If the sun is at it’s relative peak at noon, why does it take so much longer to set than it does to rise for at least half of the year?

Question

The closer you are to the date of the summer solstice, it seems to gradually take up to 10 hours for the sun to set. Yet, the sun doesn’t begin to rise at 2am. Why is that?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Daylight saving time.

Winter mid day is equidistant from both dawn and dusk. In the summer, the clocks are put an hour forwards so that mid day is actually 1 o’clock. If the sun sets at 10pm, it will rise 9 hours before 1PM which is 4am or 3am and 9pm in winter hours.