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Everybody's wrapped up in the climate / weather discussion, but the thing that surprised me a bit more was the difference in sunset / sunrise.
I was working on an international team (i.e. a bunch of Americans + one dude from France).
Back in those ancient times, video calls with everybody's face included weren't necessarily the standard, and even when we did them, everyone was typically in an office environment.
Anyway, one late afternoon (for us in the USA) we did a team video call and our French counterpart was sitting outdoors in his back yard and it was still light outside. Although we knew it was 10 p.m. where he lived, it looked closer to the amount of sunlight we'd typically see around 7 or maybe 8 p.m. here in mid-latitude US.
It was kind of interesting, because even in the height of summer at the very highest elevations, it's going to be very dark here at 10 p.m.
Location in the time zone is also a factor. France is near the far west of CEST.
For example Michigan is in the far west of EST. The sun rises 30-40 minutes later than in New York, and you do get light at 10pm in the height of summer.
This was a cool thing about living in Seattle and any further north - in the summer it'd be dusk until 10pm. And the in the winter the sun would basically never appear. I guess it was less "cool" and more "insanity producing" but locals were used to it.
Cameras are pretty good at taking in light and giving a false representation of how you'd experience it if you were actually there. You see it at televised sporting events where it looks like twilight but they have to tell the viewers at home that it's full dark there. I'd imagine at 10pm, his web cam was just doing a much better job seeing than a human eye could.
I live just across the Canadian border (~~below~~ just above the 45th parallel) and it's pretty bright at 10PM here also (that is around the summer solstice of course). So while the camera/software might have been boosting brightness, the difference in latitude still seems to make a big difference!