uk â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/ us â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/. âº A submissive person allows themselves to be controlled by other people: He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. Weakness and vulnerability.
The times of sunrise and sunset, measured by the clock, are also affected by the difference between the two kinds of time. Although the length of daylight is shortest on the winter solstice, around December 21, the dates of earliest sunset and latest sunrise are, somewhat surprisingly, not on this date.
June 12, 2011. Summer arrives in the northern hemisphere on June 21st -- the summer solstice, which is also the longest day of the year. But strangely enough, the solstice does not mark the day that the Sun rises the earliest. In fact, the date of earliest sunrise is about a week before the solstice. And the latest sunset occurs about a week after the solstice. The mismatch occurs for two reasons. First, Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a perfect circle.