Coincidentally, I bike commuted to the office today, which has become uncommon lately due to Covid, and the time of year. I was cognizant of the sun setting at 4:20pm (41.63 deg. N here) but was able to put in 8 hours, barely, before quitting, and yet arrive home before darkness. Glad to know it gets better from here on.
Thanks to those with the explanations about analemma (ouch, too close to ****enema!
). I was aware of the asynchronicity between earliest sunset, latest sunrise, and shortest daylight day, and suspected something like that was up, but never got around to looking into it. I also assumed that the figure 8 on the globe was the key, but never tried to decipher it.