On November 12, 2026, the sun will rise at 07:28 and set at 16:59, giving the day a modest 571 minutes of daylight against a rather sprawling 870 minutes of night. We are now 316 days into the year, deep in the back half of autumn, where the mornings have learned to sleep in and the evenings have started closing up shop early. It has been 144 days since the summer solstice, and daytime will keep losing ground for another 129 days before the next equinox finally calls a truce.

Since the fall equinox, the day has surrendered a net total of 60 minutes of daylight, and today alone shaves off another six minutes, split evenly between a later sunrise and an earlier sunset. The sun, it seems, is not making any dramatic gestures, just quietly trimming three minutes from each end of the day like a barber who knows you will not notice until it is too late.