I know!!! My kids actually get always freaked out when we're in Germany and it doesn't get dark til 11. But I explain to them how in winter it gets dark much earlier, plus, nearly subtropical as we are, there's little dawn or dusk.

It's ridiculous to think one could claim sunshine rate for nearly a continent, just like it's crazy to give an average temperature (she says as it was in the 80s here and I watched the snow storm on tv...)