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Which is longer day or night?

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The answer depends on the time of year. The equinoxes (= "equal nights") on the first day of spring and the first day of autumn mark the points when day and night are equal in length. After that point, the day gets longer going toward summer and shorter going toward winter. At least, that's the way it works in the Northern Hemisphere.

The solstices (= "sun stands still") on the first day of summer and the first day of winter mark the extremes. The first day of summer is the longest period of daylight and the shortest night. Then the days get shorter, passing through the balance point at the equinox, until the first day of winter, which has the shortest period of daylight and the longest night. And around we go again. The artificial changing of clocks for daylight savings messes with the apparent rhythm here, but that is just appearance (an illusion by changing the marker settings on a man-made timepiece) that has no effect on the actual progression of the seasonal changes.

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DST, Daylight Savings Time, moves the clock one hour forward so we get longer evenings. Technically, the amount of daylight is the same, but once changed we get used to it and it seems like there is more time to the day than there really is.

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Because the earth rotate to the other side of the galaxy where the sun is not pointing to the earth but the moon is pointing at the earth

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they ain't spelled the same. and one is dark and the other is light

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The Similar thing between Day and Night is they both last for 12 hours.

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they are similar because they both go for 12 hours

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no idea sorry

At the point of the actual equinox, they are the same. Equal=equinox.

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the weather, ie the wind

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