By five past five, it was already getting dark, thanks to the clocks being set forward by an hour last night. Most of our timing devices are computerised and change automatically these days, but the church clock still needs to be wound manually.

Today, the sun was up between 6:53 a.m. and 4:43 p.m. (9 hours, 50 minutes).

Yesterday it was up from 7:51 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. (9 hours and 54 minutes).

We are losing about 3.4 minutes of sunlight a day.

More interesting data about the sun is at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/oxford?month=10.