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First Day of Winter
December 21, 2014, (all day)
The United States will receive a measly 9 hours and 32 minutes of daylight on the winter solstice. The good news is that the days start to get longer, with a few additional moments of daylight each day until the Summer Solstice in June.

"Solstice" is derived from the Latin phrase for "sun stands still."