From dawn till dusk, the tea steeped in a pitcher on the blazing doorstep, recording the long hours of daylight in liquid form.
She says the move would allow an extra 235 hours of daylight after work every year and deliver benefits including 100 fewer deaths from road crashes annually.
This in itself puts pressure on the eyes, but exposure to between two and three hours of daylight acts as a counterbalance and helps maintain healthy eyes.
Peter West, spokesman for the National Science Foundation, which oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, said 24 hours of daylight this time of year should help rescue efforts.
For foresters, these few hours of daylight are a brief opportunity to make their own mark on the landscape and to tame the wilderness as much as they can.
In 10 hours of daylight charging the unit gathers up to 20 hours worth of battery power for use in the low-power 8 LED mode, or 10 hours of life if used in 16 LED mode.
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It is an imbalance in this status quo that has allowed the seasons to change: the daylight hours of summer, the time of good, shortening, whilst the time of evil, the winter of night, has gained strength, the interim period, known as dusk, when both are present, becoming an all consuming battle for supremacy.
It is true, though, that the spread of electric lighting means many people eat their main meal of the day in the evening, when natural daylight is long gone the obverse of a mouse eating during daylight hours.
Those who miss out on the correcting influence of either of these tend to fall into a spiral in which the body clock gradually becomes more and more out of synch with daylight hours.
We wouldn't jump overboard but we have a good connection to the authorities and we try to cover all the daylight hours, every day of the year.
The Humber coastguard is to open during daylight hours only, as part of plans to re-structure UK stations announced by the government.
After our 3.30 a.m. finish, the ensuing daylight hours started with a couple of eye drops but pretty soon, the intrepid Talk Asia team was dashing off to our next interview with Bollywood hot shot director and chat show host, Karan Johar.
Labradors, golden retrievers, and retriever cross breeds were the types of dog most likely to be attacked, with most of the incidents taking place in public places and in daylight hours between 0900 and 1500 hours.
In full daylight, the Silent Falcon claims a flight time of between six and 14 hours.
The continent's vast interior - "the bush" - captured the first settler's imagination, giving the colonies their mythology of shearers, miners and bushrangers. (Before 1903, a swim during daylight hours could get you arrested.) But as the 20th Century dawned, the coastal cities boomed and rural life was eclipsed by the new nation's factory jobs and suburbs.
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