Post #4134782

2026-07-19 05:59 UTC

I don’t see how an additional hour in winter would help if you have a normal 9-5 job. Does it matter if it gets dark at 4 or 5 in the afternoon when either way it’s dark before you get off work?

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@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2026-07-20 05:06

I think the idea of 9-5 being “normal” is a stereotype that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. If it was ever actually “normal”, it was in a bygone era. I don’t actually have anyone in my social circles who starts a scheduled morning shift after 8:00AM. Most people seem to start morning work shifts between 6:00 and 7:30. My last (manufacturing) employer had regular shifts 07:00-15:30, 15:00-23:30, and 23:00-07:30. The only people in my social circles who might work 9-5 are people on flexible schedules, who are already free to ignore the biannual time change. That being said, the earliest standard-time sunset in my area is around 4:30PM. Evening twilight lasts until 5:00. No daylight, no twilight for this 9-5 standard time worker. With permanent DST, this supposedly “normal” 9-5 shift worker gets sunset at 5:30, and half an hour of twilight after that. They get at least 60 minutes of evening daylight in the darkest of winter in December/January. They get much more than that hour in November, February, and March.

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