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> The only thing Germany needs to fix is the winter time (you cannot expect to have healthy people when the sun sets at around 3-4pm in winter). Short of takin
by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> The only thing Germany needs to fix is the winter time (you cannot expect to have healthy people when the sun sets at around 3-4pm in winter).
Short of taking Germany and pushing it further south I don’t think there’s much to do about that.
Permanent daylight savings will give people in parts of the country daylight for ~30 minutes after 5, at the cost of people commuting in the dark at their groggiest in the morning. A further change would compound that even more.
The reality is that if you live near the top of the world the winter daylight situation is gonna suck.
- rich_sasha 3y agoI was once in Iceland in mid-December (around equinox). They are heavily shifted in their time zone, so sun was up at 9 am and down at 9 pm. I loved it! For me personally sunlight in the morning is a waste, I barely notice it before 3rd coffee. But afternoon/evening... lovely!
- tzs 3y agoUhm...Iceland in mid-December only gets about 4 hours of sunlight a day. Also, December has a solstice not an equinox. They get 12 hours of sunlight in September and March (which have equinoxes), so maybe one of those is what you were thinking of?
- rich_sasha 3y agoAh, typo. Mid March.