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DST works pretty well for London and the south of England, but if you go somewhere more north, say Aberdeen, the sun doesn't rise until nearly 9am in the winter
by fyfy18 8y ago
DST works pretty well for London and the south of England, but if you go somewhere more north, say Aberdeen, the sun doesn't rise until nearly 9am in the winter and sets before 3:30pm. [0] In the summer it's light enough to drive without lights from 4am - 11pm. Shifting either of those times by one hour to maintain the same time zone all year around work make barely any different to most people.
On mainland Europe it's even worse, the sun rises 1.5 hours later in the west of Spain compared to the east of Poland, yet they all share the same timezone.
[0] https://www.gaisma.com/en/location/aberdeen.html https://www.gaisma.com/en/location/aberdeen.html
- dahart 8y agoYeah, 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 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. ;)