I’m in Seattle and I wait at a bus stop every morning at 7:25am so I’m deeply aware of how it feels to go to school in the dark vs sunrise vs light (currently i

I’m in Seattle and I wait at a bus stop every morning at 7:25am so I’m deeply aware of how it feels to go to school in the dark vs sunrise vs light (currently it is full dark, even with the shift). Honestly, I think now it’s just better to go to work/school in the dark to get an hour more after work to play/be in the world. Obviously each city is different, but Seattle is miserable in the winter and it would be way more fun to have sunset at 5:15pm instead of the current 4:15pm. People don’t play catch or go to parks before school, they do it after so the darkness is partially painful for loosing time to hang with kids. That said, the anecdotes about the 70s are super interesting. I was not alive then, but I wonder if work schedules were quite a bit different from they are now to account for the difference in thinking? I know plenty of people leaving at 7am to beat traffic across the bridge (well before sunset with or without dst). Perhaps in the 70s people just left at 7:30am specifically to make it to work at 8am and the sunset time mattered more then our world of 2 hour rush hour and hybrid remote work?