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.
The earliest sunrise is at 6:38am on December 1; the latest sunset is at 5:31pm on December 31; the latest sunrise is at 6:55am on December 31; the earliest sunset is at 5:20pm on December 4. Daylight savings time is observed in 2012 but it neither starts nor ends in December, so the entire month is in standard time.