Shortest Day In 2024. Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the official first day of winter, is on thursday, december 21, this year (well, for the vast bulk of the americas anyway). The shortest day and the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere occur during winter solstice which is usually observed on december 21st or sometimes on december 22nd utc (see table 1).
In this problem, we are given a matrix mat [] [] with r rows and c columns, where some cells are landmines (marked as 0) and others are safe to traverse. The days become shorter as a result of the earth tilting away from the sun (at least in.