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Would you rather have darker evenings or darker mornings?

Meaning that, if the switch between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time were done away with, which one would you prefer be all year round? Daylight Savings Time (so lighter in the evening but darker in the morning) or Standard Time (darker in the evening, but lighter in the morning)?
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Don't really care. Just consistency. I prefer adapting to the universe rather than flailing at changing the universe.
itsok · 31-35, F
Darker mornings. I’m not a super early riser, and I spend the mornings getting ready for work.
I hate it getting dark before I get off work. When it’s dark it feels like it too late to get anything done, even if it’s only 5pm.
SW-User
Darker mornings.
Children do not walk to school now.

In England, March is a funny month. It is very light in the morning. But they will not put the clocks forward.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
We had an experiment with permanent summer time in the UK1968-1971: https://www.rsainsurance.co.uk/news/insurance/rospa-and-rsa-the-permanent-summer-of-1971/

It was very popular where I lived. But the Scots objected on the grounds that it was dangerous for children to go to school in the dark. Now I live further north than Scotland and the children have no trouble going to school in the dark so that was not a good argument.
AdaXI · 41-45, T
Over here in Britain I would definitely say lighter evenings (BST). I mean otherwise in the middle of the summer it would be getting light at around 2-3am when most people are not long in bed and starting to get dark at around 8pm and most people like having a few hours extra light on a night to do stuff over the summer.
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AdaXI · 41-45, T
@onewithshoes Hey that's fair enough but that wasn't really in the two options put forward by the poster. You've made a 3rd option, I see what you did there.😄

I mean ok we could leave it in GMT (or standard time if you call it that) and we could all get up and go to work an hour earlier then we could come home an hour earlier so in that sense we would all still have an extra hour of daylight in the summertime, yeah sure job done.

I mean I don't really care about changing the time zone twice a year, or whether it stays in 'standard' and we all just get up an hour earlier clock wise to compensate, or if it moves to BST it's still the same time.

All I'm getting at is, if I had to pick a 'fixed time' that never ever changed so I've either got to pick more daylight in the morning or more daylight on an evening. Well I'd prefer it to be in the evening.
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onewithshoes · 22-25, F
@AdaXI No, I was not suggesting any third option, but expressing support for the second option, standard time year round; and simply observing that schools and businesses always have the option of adjusting their own hours to their own preferences anyway.
AdaXI · 41-45, T
@onewithshoes Well that's fair enough just as long as you understand many of us would want an hour more on an evening rather than in a morning particularly in the summer. I mean no one really cares what timezone we're working with if you're just going to change all the opening hours to suit everyone anyway, you could do that with any timezone.
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butterflybaby75 · 46-50, F
Well people who are shiftworkers hate daylight savings. I've done shifts in the past.
SW-User
@butterflybaby75 I've noticed a difference between how shift workers view it vs. 9-5.
onewithshoes · 22-25, F
Keep Standard Time year round, and let schools and businesses choose their own hours, and change them if and when they want.
At least keep some logic in it, and let 12:00AM and 12:00PM at least approximate midnight and midday.
The other choice just divorces us that much more from the natural world without any real gain for anyone.
SarahAndSamantha · 46-50, F
I don't get along with sunlight very well, and it's always already light by the time I wake up, so darker in the evening and the sooner the better
exexec · 61-69, C
Darker evenings. With dark mornings, kids are going to school in the dark, and our preferred 7:00 tee time on the golf course is dark.
TrunkZ · 56-60, M
Light later into the day. I prefer that the average workday not consume more daylight than it has to.
I would prefer to stay on BST year round and lose GMT...
SW-User
@HootyTheNightOwl Ah okay, so that's effectively the British equivalent of DST in the U.S.
@SW-User Yeah... That's correct.

For some reason, I find that one easier to adjust to.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Darker evenings. I've always HATED dark mornings when I had to get up early.
Bowenw · 61-69, M
I think DST so it's lighter in the evening which may deter crime.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
I prefer darker morning than evenings. We should move to permanent summer time. But either one would be an improvement on changing the clocks twice a year.

Now that so much is done online rather than in person or by telephone it really isn't necessary that everyone be working at the same time of day.

Anyone who doesn't want to get up in the dark can just get up later.
Adrift · 61-69, F
I think standard time is better then I know when its time to go to bed.
Sevendays · M
Can I just choose more daylight in general?
I like early, sunlight mornings and dark evenings.
SW-User
Darker mornings
Darker mornings.
Darker evenings
CestManan · 46-50, F
darker mornings.
Fluffybull · F
Darker evenings.
DDonde · 31-35, M
I think darker mornings, personally. Early night has a strange effect on me.

 
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