While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage. Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime. There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun.
But I have never been able to make out the numbers. The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight. A body of Earth surrounded by sky.