evening’s have been getting lighter for over a week. Though admittedly the days start getting longer around now.
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So… mornings continue to get darker until about the 29th of December, evenings begin to get lighter from about the 10th. On or around the 20th the evening stays lighter by longer than the extra it stays dark for in the morning.
So days are still getting physically shorter from 10th-20th even though the evenings are starting to get longer.
The days get longer from the 20th-29th even though the mornings are still getting darker.
Locations closer to the Equator have their earliest sunset sometime in November. Locations at higher latitudes, on the other hand, have their earliest sunset later, closer to the actual date of the winter solstice.
And this, but unless you’re living at the North pole, your earliest sunset is before the 20/21st.