Rad wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2008 at 9:00pm:

Heh. Or use Google Earth. A fun thing to do is turn on the display of sunlight and set it to spin through the day, so you get an animation which shows how the day/night and night/day transitions sweep across the globe, which is a nice way of getting a feeling for how we humans really experience night and day in different parts of the world during different seasons.

Right now, when the day-to-night transition here is passing across Auckland, the sun is also setting in Alaska. On a Mercator view of the Pacific, it's a diagonal slanted with the top on the right hand side. Not a huge tilt, since we're not that far off the equinox, but still (for extra grins, wind your computer clock to June)

The day-to-night transition is diagonal on a Mercator map too, but it runs the other way. Rotate the time slider in Google Earth, and when dawn is happening in New Zealand, it's happening in Sibera, not Alaska (and going forward to June, dawn in Japan is underway).

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We've had cameras since the 90's that capture people going through red lights at notorious intersections in Auckland, mainly to capture the plates.

However, basically I have four lights to go to get on the motorway from the office, and that's about it. I live a full 100km north and there is precisely one traffic light between me and home (I don't think there are any traffic lights in any of the towns in the entire Kaipara district where I live). Fun fact about Kaipara - the harbour has ~3200km of coastline. Talk about fractal geometry....

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Heh, fair enough. Concentrate on what matters!