In the morning, it's light much earlier.
Morning-oriented people don't make this mistake. And we certainly don't need advice on "how to make the most of morning light." Just get up, year 'round, based on the coming of the light and the problem of moving the clocks around disappears.
But here's something I love about the article. It calls attention to someone I was going to bring up on my own:
... Cecilia Blomdahl, known as Cecilia from Svalbard on TikTok... documents her cozy life on Svalbard, a remote archipelago near the North Pole [and] is invigorated by the darkness this time of year, when the sun does not shine at all.....
She proclaims that the months of total darkness are her favorite time of year. You can "make the most" of whatever light remains — unless, like Cecilia, there's none at all — but you can also — like Cecilia — find the warmth and beauty of darkness.
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Today was glorious. I am so happy to see the sunrise at 630 instead of 730. Its a big downer to get up at 539, and realize you wont see the sun till 730. I used to be upset at the "fall bacK" because it got dark an hour early in the PM, but I've changed.
That 8:45 light is lovely. Not sure I would want that much extreme lack of light for more than a week or two.
It was odd this morning.
What ever happened to the legislature regarding Daylight Savings?
Which is easier, searching until you find your bliss, or finding it in what you already have?
Which is more rewarding?
There's an old Native America saying... (I heard this on the fabulous MC show)
regarding "Daylight savings"... Something like 'Only the white man thinks he can cut off the bottom of the blanket and sew it on the top of the blanket, to make a longer blanket.'
Fall back and stay back. End foolish "Daylight savings time" once and for all.
That is badly written, but it is comprehensible- the writer is meaning it is dark much earlier in the evening, so make more use of the earlier sunlight in the morning to keep a balance.
Perfect English! Hardly any accent.
But how does she get electricity? Solar? Wind?
It gets dark about 1 minute earlier each day until the Winter solstice. Nothing significant changes when we move our clocks.
The dawn of early light.
'Perfect English! Hardly any accent.'
That seems to be the norm in Northern Europe.
Listen to golfers Sepp Straka (Austria) and Viktor Hovland (Norway) when they are interviewed.
Yes, both went to college in the US, but their accents sound almost natively American.
And Shabbat ends an hour earlier, so we can have hot food for supper on Saturday instead of the eternal salad nicoise! Yippee!
She sounds like a happy person. People who lead happy lives find joy in the most ordinary things. Like beautiful darkness.
Actually, the darkness and the lightness are both earlier, in the morning and the evening.
The angst that surrounds the annual resumption of standard time baffles me. I do believe there are large numbers of people who believe the short days of winter are solely the result of the switch away from daylight savings time.
"the writer is meaning it is dark much earlier in the evening, so make more use of the earlier sunlight in the morning to keep a balance."
That's the way I read it. Then again, the NYT was the paper that informed its readers that the sun rises in the west, so who knows.
"n.n said...
The dawn of early light"
One of my earliest memories was wondering what a "donserly light" is.
That Native American blanket joke was never accurate. The whole point of moving the clock was to capture more of the light in useful parts of the day. I spent a summer in Indiana when they stayed on standard time all year, and the summer sunrises were absurdly early.
Dave Begley said...
“But how does she get electricity? Solar? Wind?”
Norway is a major oil producer, 15th in the World back in 2019.
This is my favorite day of the year.
Just leave the damn time on Standard Time - that's why it's called "standard", it's the true time - and stop this damn senseless clock-changing nonsense from now on.
"Just get up, year 'round, based on the coming of the light and the problem of moving the clocks around disappears."
Who, aside from retired college professors, have such a privilege?
I, for one, expect that Svalbard blog is written by a vampire.
Note that having an extra hour of dark in the mornings makes going to catch a school bus a real pain in the ass for millions of kids. Great idea, doing that every fall.
Just get up, year 'round, based on the coming of the light and the problem of moving the clocks around disappears.
Spoken like a retiree whose working years involved limited amounts of time where actually being at the office. Most of the country/world has set hours that they are stuck with, and cannot simply ignore the time shift. Most of the country, at least the northern states, will have working parents driving home in the dark after work, kids coming home from school will have less than two hours of sunlight (and at its worst, only about one) in which to get out and play, etc. Most peoples' schedules are dictated by someone other than themselves.
It's the work of the devil, I tell you. The Unclean One has corrupted them and we must do battle against them. To save humanity and to keep our souls from sin.
Some people like to get up early. Some like to stay up late. No matter how you adjust your clocks, there won't be enough light in the winter when people want it to satisfy them all.
As well, sunrise/sunset is as much as an hour different between the east and west edges of the same time zone so whatever help you think you're giving one side by moving clocks back and forth is hurting the other side.
"Just leave the damn time on Standard Time - that's why it's called "standard", it's the true time - and stop this damn senseless clock-changing nonsense from now on."
You've got my vote.
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, but the earliest sunset is about two weeks earlier, and the latest sunrise is about two weeks later. The change is very slight, though, around either solstice, because the curves of sunrise/sunset times are nearly flat at those two points.
In my dotage, arising earlier every morning, I appreciate each sunrise. Besides, my deck faces east. I never see sunsets unless, like tonight, I'll be on the coast with a dog or three.
This is something I tend to fail at each year. Instead of being disturbed by sunset now being before 6 pm, I should just get out to do the sunshine work earlier. But I tend to have a thing where I put stuff off until it's getting about 3 pm. Not a problem in summer where there is 6 hours of sunlight left, but in winter I let the clock time annoy me.
Why I cannot adapt to sun time, I do not know.
Yup.
Oil and natgas keep us from freezing to death. Solar and wind are unreliable and expensive.
I loathe this time of year. Before Solstice hits, it'll be dark at 4:15 in the afternoon.
Sucks.
I got no clue until I look at a clock or through the shades. The building's outlets are on my eastern wall under a bank of windows. I have heavy curtains all around to keep all-day sun from blinding me.
When I have to go outside, yeah, I don't care for this time of year. Gimme a full day's light.
"Gimme a full day's light."
You always (well, ignoring clouds) get a full day's light. It's just that some times of the year, there's less of it.
Blame Climate Change.
"Spoken like a retiree whose working years involved limited amounts of time where actually being at the office. Most of the country/world has set hours that they are stuck with, and cannot simply ignore the time shift. Most of the country, at least the northern states, will have working parents driving home in the dark after work, kids coming home from school will have less than two hours of sunlight (and at its worst, only about one) in which to get out and play, etc. Most peoples' schedules are dictated by someone other than themselves."
I offer the advice to anyone, but of course, those with scheduled times for arriving and leaving places have a more difficult path if they want to stay on the sun schedule. I myself have a bit of trouble getting up in time to go out for the earliest sunrises and, at that time of year, difficulty going to sleep when it's not completely dark out. And in the winter, I'm up often for hours before it's time to go out for the sunrise, and that's a different way of life, sitting here in the dark with my coffee and my blog for so long before I can do my morning ritual.
But someone with more scheduled time could still do it, and you could get your children to do it. Year 'round, you have the same number of hours in the day and the same number of hours at work/school. You just take your some of your awake-and-at-home hours in the morning, before work. Children could do homework or housework in the morning. Adults with children could enjoy this time with the children. Adults without children could read the newspaper, cook, copulate, etc. Then go out and meet your scheduled obligations, and when you get back home, there's a shorter time for evening things. Get something to eat, wash up, settle in, and enjoy the pleasure of a bedtime that arrives fairly soon after your work day is over.
I would do that. You might think that's bad, but live closer to nature's light, and give it a chance to win you over.
Blogger Ann Althouse said...
I offer the advice to anyone, but of course, those with scheduled times for arriving and leaving places have a more difficult path if they want to stay on the sun schedule. I myself have a bit of trouble getting up in time to go out for the earliest sunrises and, at that time of year, difficulty going to sleep when it's not completely dark out. And in the winter, I'm up often for hours before it's time to go out for the sunrise, and that's a different way of life, sitting here in the dark with my coffee and my blog for so long before I can do my morning ritual.
But someone with more scheduled time could still do it, and you could get your children to do it. Year 'round, you have the same number of hours in the day and the same number of hours at work/school. You just take your some of your awake-and-at-home hours in the morning, before work. ....
11/6/23, 5:49 AM
Except that some of us have to go to work at a 'normal' time when it's dark during DST and the sun has barely risen during Non DST.
At least during DST we had a few hours after work of light, and now that has gone.
Unfortunately, AA comments read like 'let them eat cake'.
AA says: "Year 'round, you have the same number of hours in the day and the same number of hours at work/school."
What you have in winter is a little or a lot (depending on latitude) fewer hours of sunlight.
"You might think that's bad, but live closer to nature's light, and give it a chance to win you over."
That's great if it works for you. If it doesn't, then what?
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