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Originally Posted by GGG
For me the earlier light in the winter makes winter so much more tolerable. If we quit switching I’d probably adjust my work hours to compensate.
The problem is there is no good time zone to make up for 8hrs of daylight.
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For me it is way more depressing to enter twilight at like 4pm and see the sun completely disappear by 430.
At least you can engineer around the morning darkness with a SAD lamp.
But I've always thought our institutions can make finer tuned adjustments (adjust school times by ~30 minutes from Nov-Feb) and the private sector should follow suit if they're smart.
I also wonder how much our evolving entertainment media factors into this. For a lot of years boomers would have the TV on from dinnertime until the late evening news and then go to sleep (still the case for my parents). With streaming we aren't shepherded into this same time constrained habit where our crappy Chicago procedural ends at 10:58pm. Sports are the main thing that compel an 'end time' now.