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Earliest sunrise this year, reckoned in Daylight Saving Time, occurs Monday, June 13 at 5:40 a.m. This event occurs about a week before the longest day of the year — the summer solstice — because of factors related to the shape of the earth's orbit and the angle between Earth's axis and the plane of its revolution around the sun.

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