Days & Nights in North Dakota, There is a differance!

Having lived along the North Coast (US/Canadian Boarder) all my life I was surprised when Southerners moving here due to our Air Force Base or our oil field commented that our days and nights are different then theirs.

How could that be? I knew that our summers were shorter and our winters longer but a difference between day and night. Of course I knew that at either the North or South Pole they experience a period of 24 hour nights and 24 hour days but I just never put two and two together as far as the land between the Poles. The following link gives you some detail as to what we experience here in Minot. In a nut shell our January Sunlight is about 8 am to 5 pm and in July our daylight starts around 5 am and sets around 10 pm.

http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/minot-north-dakota.html

Now that I've thought this out I have to think again, how marviouls is our God. Keep the days short when it's to cold to go out and do anything and then in our short summer season make the day long enough to take care of the lawn and home repairs. It's a good thing!