Daylight Saving Time - Coming Soon!
Mar. 10th, 2023 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerDaylight Saving Time starts in a few days, on Sunday morning. Generally speaking, I look forward to DST. It shifts an hour of daylight from the early, early mornings when it's wasted on me (and most people) to the evenings, when it can be enjoyed after work. The past few weeks, though, I've been thinking that standard time feels just about right.
The past few weeks sunrise has been around 6:30am. Today it was 6:25. That's just before I start the day. When my 6:45am weekday alarm rings there's already light in the sky filtering through my bedroom windows and door. That kick-starts my body's circadian responses and makes it easier to get up.
Evenings don't suck right now, either. With sunset arriving just after 6pm (today it's 6:10pm) I enjoy that there's still some daylight left , usually, after I finish with work for the day. The dreariest part of standard hours is closer to the solstice when the sun sets before 5pm, and it's so pitch black by 7pm those aforementioned circadian responses are telling me it's late at night already. We're 11.5 weeks on from the solstice now, so this is kind of the sweet spot.
When the time changes in two days I'll take the good with the bad. It will go back to being dark when my weekday alarm rings, but I'll have another hour of daylight to enjoy in the evenings. And as we head toward summer the days will grow longer at both ends. It's a lot more good than bad IMO.
The past few weeks sunrise has been around 6:30am. Today it was 6:25. That's just before I start the day. When my 6:45am weekday alarm rings there's already light in the sky filtering through my bedroom windows and door. That kick-starts my body's circadian responses and makes it easier to get up.
Evenings don't suck right now, either. With sunset arriving just after 6pm (today it's 6:10pm) I enjoy that there's still some daylight left , usually, after I finish with work for the day. The dreariest part of standard hours is closer to the solstice when the sun sets before 5pm, and it's so pitch black by 7pm those aforementioned circadian responses are telling me it's late at night already. We're 11.5 weeks on from the solstice now, so this is kind of the sweet spot.
When the time changes in two days I'll take the good with the bad. It will go back to being dark when my weekday alarm rings, but I'll have another hour of daylight to enjoy in the evenings. And as we head toward summer the days will grow longer at both ends. It's a lot more good than bad IMO.
