Daylight hours

[mtbc]

I do not welcome the arrival of daylight saving time. Actually seeing some daylight helps human brains to wake up in the morning, and I get up early enough to shower, eat, commute, etc. in time to park at work at around 8h. Now I get to do that early stumbling about when it's wholly dark outside and year-round daylight savings would make that even worse for winter. A darker evening is good if it helps me to become sleepier earlier. I hope not to have to shift my arrival at work into even more darkness as campus repopulates in the apparent aftermath of the pandemic that isn't actually over, we'll see how the queue of vehicles at the security perimeter develops in length.

Comments

[mellowtigger]

I have very strong feelings that time should never "shift". Beyond that, I'm not certain that I care what the standard is. I have a slight preference for keeping "noon" to mean "when the sun is at its highest point", so that midnight could also keep its generic "middle-of-the-night" meaning too. Maybe I just need to learn to divorce those definitions from 12 o'clock, and assign them to some other time on the clock.

Reducing the 8-hour workday and the 9-to-5 (or 8-to-5) standard would also help a lot.

[wpadmirer]

I hate daylight saving time, and I think it's wrong that young kids are out standing by the roadside in the damn dark because rich assholes want to golf after work.

[mtbc]

Absolutely.