Noon in winter, 1pm in summer when clocks are an hour ahead of Nature.
It depends on the time of day because the angle of the sun will determine the shadow length
late afternoon (sunset)
In Canada it's probably 8:30 or 9:45.
'Yuletide' can be split into two words, viz. 'Yule' and 'tide'. 'Yule' is a pre-christian era name for the shortest day, when people celebrated the passing of the 'shortest day. For 'tide' read it as 'time'. So Yuletide means the time of the passing of the shortest day,
If you imagine the earth standing still with its axis tilted 23 deg. clockwise and the sun off to the right, regardless off the earths rotation, the north pole is always in the suns light, this is the longest day in the northern hemisphere. If you move the sun over to the left, this represents the shortest day in the northern hemisphere, and the north pole is always in shadow. note: The earths axis remains parallel in both positions due to gyroscopic influence of earths rotation. If you place the sun directly behind the earth, that's one of the equinox positions, the other would be directly in front of the earth. The time between longest and shortest day is 6 months, and the equinox are midway between longest and shortest day
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Mid-day
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Atmidday
Apparent solar time
Noon, because the sun is directly overhead.
local noon (not noon according to the clock)
it is shortest at noon when the sun is directly over you
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At mid-day or when the sun is as close to overhead of you as possible. At this time, your shadow will be directly below you and not long, as it is at sunrise or sunset. If you want which day in a year the Shadow likely to be smallest than it is June 22
In the southern hemisphere, the shortest shadow during the day will point North
Shadows are the shortest when the sun is high in the sky. This is because when the sun is high in the sky, sunlight is striking the ground at an almost right angle making a short shadow. If the sun would be directly overhead, there would be no shadow.