What is the shortest day in a year?

Question

riddle time.

no correct answer yet. This is a trick question that involve only the continental United States, and may be Canada.

Day LIgh saving Time, moving the clock one hour ahead make the day lasted only 23 hours. First correct answer going down(meaning the one that post first and edit his answer later) WIN!!
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Answer 1

winter solstice

Answer 2

March 11th, 2007 (second Sunday in March, because President Bush said so), the Day you switch to Daylight Saving Time when the clocks, in the Spring, spring forward to 3am.

Daylight Saving Time and reverting to Standard Time? I am French and I know some american people who have no idea when it is the standard time and when it is the other one, the DST and when do you revert to the standard time, when do you go back, when to you go forward... Isn’t that a little too complicated? Ok, I know…spring forward and fall back…(in the Spring, you go forward an hour and in the Fall, you go back an hour…) but you still do not know if you are in the DST (sounds like a disease…) or the Standard Time, but really, who should care? Apparently, some people should care, because if I get a middle school newsletter reminding me to revert to DST in the wrong time of the year, when you cannot revert to DST (you can only go to DST then revert to Standard Time) then I know people are very much confused about the whole thing.

I never had that problem in France where things are simpler, you know… like with the metric system. There is the Summer Time and the Winter Time, isn’t that simpler than a thing that sounds like a disease and you have to revert to it? Why do you need to revert to anything?
By the way…Daylight Saving Time should be called Daylight Shifting Time since no daylight is actually saved.

And then to complicate things even more, you have different parts of the World that switch at different time. Let’s forget about China…they tried DST and dropped it like a smelly sock. They do not do that anymore, lucky Chinese people, they will rule the World, one day, believe me... Then you have Europe, where it happens in the last Sunday in March. The Americans used to do it in the first Sunday of April but this year, President Bush decided that starting in 2007, it would be in the second Sunday of March, why he did not change it to the last Sunday in March so it would be the same as Europe? I do not know except that I know that Bush is a moron.
The only thing good so far (until President Bush messed things up again) was that the Europeans and Americans were in synch in the Fall because they both changed time on the last Sunday of October but then President Bush decided to change that too because he’s a moron so this year, in 2007, USA and Europe will no longer be in synch in the fall. Europe will still change time on the last Sunday of October like always but USA will be on the first Sunday of November (11/04/07) so the little trick-or-treaters on Halloween will have one more hour of daylight to gather more candies which will benefit the candy industry and the dentists.

I think the whole thing is just a bother and the world should do as the Chinese.

Answer 3

December 21

Answer 4

Day Light saving Time, moving the clock one hour ahead make the day last only 23 hours.

Answer 5

Sunday, March 11, 2007 when we move our clocks ahead one hour to begin daylight saving time. However, if you are referring to day LIGHT vs. dark, I believe that it would be December 22.

Answer 6

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year

Answer 7

Friday

Answer 8

Well if you are in Australia the shortest day of the year is the 21st of June , i should know because it is my Birthday on the shortest day of the year :)
Im not sure what it is in the USA

Answer 9

The Winter Solstice has the least amount of any daylight in the year.

Answer 10

Saturday?

Answer 11

Monday?