i love the dark <3
For those in the states, is this something a change with daylight savings can fix? I’m in the dark on that (pun!) and wondering if a change could help?
It’s the problem.
Soooo (Jesus it’s hard to get a response) HOW DO YOU THINK CHANGING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS COULD SOLVE IT?
Jesus I dare you, talk about it….
Doesn’t really help all that much, daylight savings doesn’t really matter if you have around 8 hours of sunlight (or way less depending on where you are). With getting ready for work and all that jazz you’ll always either get home in the dark or go out in the dark. I guess you could offset by 4 hours to get back home when it’s sunny, but the benefits of jetlagging the entire population of a continent just for that is not worth it.
The current 1 hour shifts affect all sorts of things negatively (e.g. higher car crash stats in the 2 weeks after a change), so an even harder lag is probably not worth it.
The previous poster mentioned that the shift is the problem, which is partially true. The daylight savings time was invented so that factories needed less light, it’s intentional to disregard the workers time off.
I mean, yeah, but I don’t like using “fixed” here. Going to permanent regular time would mean the sun wouldn’t rise an hour later during the DST months. DST ends on Halloween this year so we’d have an earlier sunrise right now.
But it doesn’t change anything else. Winter is standard time already so it’s not going to change anything about the sunrise or sunset in December. It’s also not adding any sunlight, just shifting the times.
I’m digging it. I don’t start getting woken up by by sunlight at 4am unlike the height of summer. Being in coastal northeastern Japan, I really think we need to move the time zone by an hour or two so the sun comes up closer to 5 or 6 in summer.
I do lament our lack of summer this year. We had the rainiest weather on record in many parts of Japan. Days and weeks without a rainless day.
This is my go to argument when people say daylight saving is a pain. When I first came to Japan and left a late night bar at 3 to find the sky getting first light I was dismayed. 430 sunrise is far too early.
Yep. At the height of summer, I can walk around outside at 3ish in my super-countryside area and see well enough to start doing farm work.
I think they must have accidentally delivered your summer to the wrong address, Europe. We had temperature records and rivers have been at record lows for months
i don’t particularly enjoy getting off with the big lights on
Skill issue
clearly articulated preference issue
I was today years old when I realized that we indeed fall into darkness for several months and then spring back into the light.
I can actually see again without sunglasses
Add to that unbroken cloud cover 24/7 😙👌
I actually love that. Perfect weather.
I work outside year round and cloudy weather is THE best- bit cooler in summer and the clouds make it a bit warmer in the winter. Love the clouds!!!
Not a ray of sunshine coming through, no shape to the clouds, just uniform grayness, no rain even? It feels like the sky is hanging too low and there’s something wrong with your eyes, like you didn’t notice you left your laptop at 25% brightness since last night. For weeks on end. Starting now until December or whenever the first snow comes. If it comes that is.
It may seem like relief when a too-hot summer is still fresh in your mind, but have you ever even experiened that and still say you love it?
Yes. It is my ideal weather.
I am a sweaty yeti though.
Might explain the preference.
right? finnaly i can see because it’s not mega bright and think because its not mega hot
🎵She's in love with herself 🎵She likes the dark 🎵On her milk-white neck 🎵The devil's markWay back when I decided to dye my hair black, that song helped me choose which kind of black.
My black is blacker than your black
Vanta?
This is why I love fall and winter.
Ahh if the op is actually from yukon as the handle suggests, i believe their experience during fall is like that. Im a few degrees south from that latitude but its still quite depressing here tho only in the latter half of fall. Early october is still quite bearable.
Something like the midnight sun fenomenon?
I mean its not really a phenomenon, it happens every year in the north as the closer you get to the poles of earth the shorter days get during winter and longer during summer. Midnight sun happens before cause of the curvature of the earth plus light spreading, and no sun at all doesnt really happen so much, its more like a very small amount of sunlight for a long time. I dont live that north but it still means the total daylight we get during the winter solstice is about 6 and a half hours, from 8:45 to 15:15.
It has redeeming qualities (taken yesterday). Pretty leaves, less intense sun, perfect outdoor temperatures. During fall I can actually enjoy the outdoors tbh.
Also less mosquitoes and biting flies. School is in session so crowds are down until holiday travel begins.
Remember your vitamin D
Joke’s on you, I was already not getting any sunlight-vitamin D in summer! The sun is a deadly lazer!
Not anymore!
Theres a blanket.
You can make a religion out of this.
No, don’t
Actually, why not. Besides, has anyone conquered that bit yet?
As deadly as time
giving or receiving?
Por que no los dos?
I quite like the significance placed on the “turning on of the lamp” in moomins books to signal the start of autumn. Dark!
it’s fall
Maybe you have fallen and damaged your brain? MRT/MRI might tell more.
Based on the mood swings youre having over a post… on fall, maybe you should get your brain health checked up?
I live in Arizona. It’s still sunny and over 100 degrees here. Where does this person live, Alaska?
I’m going to guess they live in the Yukon
Are you a bot? Because I too live in Arizona, and I’ve been enjoying all the rain we had last week, and the lovely 95° temps it left behind in its wake. It usually doesn’t drop below 100° until November here, so this early autumn weather is a nice change of pace for once.
