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by KineticLensman 525 days ago
It’s partly because we have a standardised 24 hour clock and solar noon (when the sun is highest) is sometimes ahead and sometimes behind GMT noon. The sunrise and sunset times relate to solar noon so they vary accordingly.

See ‘equation of time’ and ‘analemma’ for underlying astronomical explanations, as hinted at by sibling posts.