A very interesting fact that I never really thought too much about. I knew about these terms since elementary school, but education took me away from geography, so now, some interesting thing about our planet "forces" me to do some short research.
According to some logic, one would expect that at the beginning of winter (in the northern hemisphere), the shortest days of the year begin (with the shortest interval of daylight over the day), but in fact, all the days that precede the beginning of winter (21.12) are shorter and shorter, that finally, the shortest day would be exactly 21.12.
After that day, almost imperceptibly, the sun appears earlier and earlier in the east and sets later and later in the west.
I had the opportunity to take two photos, two days apart in the same minute, on a clear autumn morning (very close to the beginning of winter), while there was no snow and gray skies, when winter was not even in sight.
They show how late it is for the "sunrise in the east"...
I couldn't take pictures of the west, in those days the afternoon was cloudy, so already around noon I wanted to say good night and go to sleep (which I couldn't because I was at work).
Today, the winter solstice is behind us, earlier sunrises and later sunsets await us, so there will be a little more light in our lives in the northern hemisphere.
I'm happy about the extension of the day, because it's really tiring when I return home in pitch darkness, at 5:30 p.m., when my day is just beginning...