The Daylight's Just About Right
Feb. 21st, 2025 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerRight now it's one of those times of year when the daylight feel just about right. Sunrise today was 6:48am, which aligns well with my weekday 6:45am wake-up time. The sky starts to get bright, gradually, at 6:30. That helps me wake up naturally around the time of my alarm.
It's not perfect at this time of year, though. Sunset is at 5:54pm. That means it's already dark when I start cooking dinner. It's better than late December, when sunset before 5pm means it's dark before I even finish work for the day.
I do look forward to the summer when there will be light in the evenings, and I can do a thing like enjoy a drink on the balcony after dinner. Daylight Saving Time is coming in a bit over two weeks.... That will shift an hour of daylight into the evening right away. So maybe I'll start enjoying after-dinner daylight in March. Though that one-hour switch will plunge my wake-up time back into the dark for at least a month. Gotta take the good with the bad.
It's not perfect at this time of year, though. Sunset is at 5:54pm. That means it's already dark when I start cooking dinner. It's better than late December, when sunset before 5pm means it's dark before I even finish work for the day.
I do look forward to the summer when there will be light in the evenings, and I can do a thing like enjoy a drink on the balcony after dinner. Daylight Saving Time is coming in a bit over two weeks.... That will shift an hour of daylight into the evening right away. So maybe I'll start enjoying after-dinner daylight in March. Though that one-hour switch will plunge my wake-up time back into the dark for at least a month. Gotta take the good with the bad.
