IESM: Chairman's Desk

Dear Colleagues,
Human limbs have been designed with ingenious dexterity. If it was intended that we pat our own backs, we would have had longer arms.
Hope everyone enjoyed the longest day.
Best regards,
Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Chairman IESM

Summer Solstice
In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year (near June 22) when the Sun is farthest north. In the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged. The summer solstice marks the first day of the season of summer. The declination of the Sun on the (northern) summer solstice is known as the tropic of cancer (23° 27').

The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year. Of course, daylight saving time means that the first Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours, but these human meddling with the calendar do not correspond to the actual number of daylight hours. Sadly Indian summer is so intense one needs to really keep cool to perceive the longest day of the year.....Keep smiling especially those in hill stations where one can enjoy the cool atmosphere.