I like the sun being up soon after I get up and that is pre-7 AM not pre-8 AM.
I like the sun being up soon after I get up and that is pre-7 AM not pre-8 AM.
I prefer it to be lighter sooner. My morning walk is a heck of a lot nicer when it is actually morning. There's nothing cool about walking under streetlights. I'm not sleeping past 6 most days regardless, so the time I'm awake before dawn starts to break is...mostly wasted, if I'm honest.
I'm argumentative.
I usually not done with work for the day until after 6:30 and more often to 7 PM. So there isn't much chance of me doing stuff outside after 5:30 on anything but the weekends. During the summer, I can mow the yard mid-week but the sun isn't setting until 8:30 PM then.
For me it's mental and emotional productivity. I've really gotten into a pretty nice Zen rhythm at the gym, so it doesn't require a whole lot of thought to go through my routine, especially once I get to the cardio part. I use that hour to contemplate and work through a lot of things.
Then, I also keep an extra half hour or so built into my morning schedule to, as I said, just sit quietly in the dark after finishing my shower. I might spend it puttering on the internet, I might read something to prep for the school day, or I might just be still.
At any rate, my predawn routine is very precious to me.
I don't have a problem with it. Days are shorter, then after 12/21 they slowly start getting longer again. Just forces me to do more inside stuff that needs to be done.
We did this last year (this is my 1 year anniversary...sorry!). Bostondevil makes the point about standard time being safer for school children at bus stops. It is a solid point. I just need the daylight.
I don't care whether we stick with the daylight savings time hours or go with standard time. I just don't like the switching back and forth.
I actually worked with someone in high school who thought daylight savings time gave you an extra hour of daylight. She didn't understand that it just shifted the hours of daylight. I wonder what she ended up doing in life?