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In continental europe this is quite different from up north, here in norway daylight savings extend the light in the morning another month
it's very nice if I get up early for work to have some light. -it's going to be dark when I leave for work fairly soon either way
can't ya'll down south do one thing and we keep it up here?
Then opt for summer time year-round? Many people just hate the switching.
I think you mean winter time, but no - the point here is defending the switch honestly.
before we switch we have a bit of sun both before and after work, if we had winter time all year then we'd have the sun up at 04 in august; a bit extreme wouldn't you say?
some people hate the switching, others - like me don't mind. And in fact I enjoy the benefits.
main point here is that spain really doesn't need it while up here we do.
It's not just a south thing
You don't live far enough north in Norway if you have any light during the day for most of winter though
I have in the past, so familar with midnight sun and no-sun.
and for those places you benefit from daylight savings far earlier in the season, and then they run their course.
Counter point.
If sun sets at 10 and rises at 13, then that's december; at least for me, and before that we can still get that benefit of some light in the morning going to work.
I mean even living up north with no sun for the winter we got a little bit in the morning with winter time.
(we should get a sun fiesta in december tho, so we go out at 12 just to see the sun for the hour its there)
Other way around, but yeah.
I still maintain that daylight savings time creates more problems than it solves. Health benefits with avoiding DST. It's not worth it, even if I agree that more sun is better. Maybe catching a glimpse of the sunrise every morning during the usually cloudy, or overcast, and moist autumn doesn't really do anything for my mental health. You're still stressing to get to work and/or school in your car or on your bike, or worse, bus or (underground) train with limited time or ability to see the sun and really take it in.
The colder air, everything dying in front of my eyes, everything is wet, messy, muddy, and the damn time shift, those things depress me more than not seeing the sun.
lol, sunset at 10 - quite the misspelling
damn, you're not an autumn fan are you? ๐ฅฒ
I don't know the research, but I get an extra hour of sleep when we shift to winter time - and I get to see the gorgeous autumn leaves in the sun a bit longer?
Sure seems like I'm the weird one at least here on lemmy tho - so I'll leave it at that
I am not! ๐คง It's the worst time of year apart from the darkest time before the first snow. My mother's favourite time of year, on the other hand. I will never understand that.
The flip side is that we get an hour less sleep coming out on the other side. And us parents don't really get an hour more sleep, as our kids will wake up at 6 am regardless, which will now be 5 am for winter time. Unless we plan ahead days in advance, like I said, in which case we lose the whole advantage of the sleep-in hour anyway. It's more work for no gain no matter what.
And when summertime comes, we have to wake our kids earlier a few days before the shift, if we remember, otherwise we are in for a shock of very sleepy kids in the spring, which also sucks either way you look at it. They will need to be convinced to go to bed earlier (lol yeah right), or be very tired and cranky for a few days. Children's sleep can be very sensitive.
This is all added stress to everyone involved, and it's not welcome whether you are an autumn person or not. It contributes to an already stressful everyday situation of having kids at all, just because we want a few minutes of sun on the way to work during a few weeks or so. All dependent on weather as well, which is mostly overcast where I live in the autumn.
You're not weird in wanting more sun or loving the autumn, but there are aspects to this of which not everyone is aware. It's easy to think about it only from one's own perspective, of course. That's normal. ๐