LogFAQs > #963500227

adjl posted...

Pretty much. The absolute worst was when I had an 8 am class on mondays and would start walking at ~7:15 to get there. All of January? Dark. February? Mostly dark, but starting to get a bit lighter as the month went on, which continued into the first week of March so I could actually say the sun was up by the time I arrived. And then DST hit and it became 100% dark again. It genuinely took me a month to recover from what that did to my circadian rhythm. It was so miserable.

Meanwhile, if the sun comes up early? Buy blackout curtains and the problem's solved. It's a lot easier to fix that issue than it is to fix the issue of my soul refusing to get out of bed with me because it's too dark. On the flip side, more daylight in the evening is nice, but given that it's too cold in the winter to do much outside anyway, I'm not too broken up by it getting dark earlier.

In practice, I think ditching the time change should entail each state (or possibly even county, for some of the larger states) choosing which time zone they want to join, in which case they can alleviate that issue by picking a time zone that puts "high noon" (in terms of solar position) later in the day. That could potentially get a bit confusing, since it'd make time zone lines even more erratic than they already are, but people would get used to it eventually.

.........."could potentially" get a "bit" confusing if each state/county picked their own time zones? >_>