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Does anyone else hate winter time ? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Ziggurat to c/[email protected]

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Great, we could sleep one hour more, but suddenly, it's getting dark at 18.

Great we have one hour more of sun on the morning, but instead of being pitch black when starting to commute to work it's just still dark and by the end of November it'll be pitch black anyway.

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[–] Mouselemming 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The difference between DST and ST isn't going to help that. The daylight is shorter regardless.

[–] azertyfun 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes it would. I, like most 21st century humans, wake up for work and have free time after work.

In practice for my relatively northern latitude this means I get a little bit of daylight before work (except perhaps around december/january), but winter time is very specifically designed so that today the sun will set exactly 6 minutes before I end my work day.

Were we to keep permanent DST I would get an hour of free time in the daylight today, and at least a little bit of light outside for all winter except perhaps for a month around December. As it stands, I do not get any free time in sunlight for 5 days a week for the entire duration of ST. The switch to ST means "bye-bye sun" and I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I FUCKING HATE IT.

The 24 hour clock is a made up construct. So are business hours. But if we already agreed to change one of these twice a year, can we make it so that it is not optimized to trap me inside for the entire duration of daytime????

[–] Mouselemming 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I interpreted "I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark" as you hating both equally. As an adult, I agree I'd rather get up and drive to work in darkness to gain a little daytime after work. But I recall as a child being miserable going to school in darkness.

[–] azertyfun 3 points 3 weeks ago

Kids finish school around 3 pm where I live. They have time to do their extracurricular activities (partially) during daytime even in the dead of winter. So of course it's the mornings they find dreadful. If school finished around 5-6 pm I think they'd be miserable then as well.

Speaking of which, I'm about to end my work day and the sun is setting right now. FML.