Yeah, agreed. There are definitely places where daylight saving time doesn't make that much sense. Aberdeen doesn't have an official night time for 3.5 months of the year, or an astronomical twilight for 2 months. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/aberdeen Still, without it, in June the sun rises at 3am and sets at 9pm, it still seems like trading the morning hour for one in the evening would be a net positive for most people, even if it's small. Unless I was on a strange work schedule, I would definitely sleep through the first few hours of sun in the morning, and always be awake for the sunset.
I suddenly started to wonder, if we care about daylight, whether work schedules might make more sense if they started at 8 am rather than 9, just to be more symmetric around noon. Or even 7am, if we're preserving evening daylight. But I dunno, that sounds too early. ;)
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Yeah, agreed. There are definitely places where daylight saving time doesn't make that much sense. Aberdeen doesn't have an official night time for 3.5 months of the year, or an astronomical twilight for 2 months. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/aberdeen Still, without it, in June the sun rises at 3am and sets at 9pm, it still seems like trading the morning hour for one in the evening would be a net positive for most people, even if it's small. Unless I was on a strange work schedule, I would definitely sleep through the first few hours of sun in the morning, and always be awake for the sunset.
I suddenly started to wonder, if we care about daylight, whether work schedules might make more sense if they started at 8 am rather than 9, just to be more symmetric around noon. Or even 7am, if we're preserving evening daylight. But I dunno, that sounds too early. ;)