Why don’t sunrise and sunset change the same amount of time each day.

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[According to this site](https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/atlanta) between 1/1/24 – 1/31/24 sunset goes from 5:39-6:07, but sunrise goes from 7:42-7:35. Why does sunset change by 28 minutes, but sunrise only changes by 7?

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I guess the fundamental reason is that the axis of rotation of the earth is slanted with respect to the plane it revolves around the sun and that the path around the sun is an ellipse.

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