Is anyone looking forward to the winter solstice?

I mostly wait for the Solstice to be over... Right now we have 5h 17min from sunrise to sunset. The non-cloudy sky and full Moon helped the past few ”days”. By the end of January it will be much better usually

The dark does not really bother me that much, mostly just an inconvenience while driving or trying to get something done outside. Not a thing I can control at all, so no use to complain about it either So I just try to stay home by the hi-fi or the fireplace as much as possible. I do know people to whom the darkness really is hard. For some of them it is most likely just an attitude thing, but there is also a real known mental condition linked to it.

I agree about the daylight savings. Practically no one’s job is dependent on the daylight, ever since electric light became common.

Besides, places like Dallas, TX have 10 hours from sunrise to sunset even today! Chicago close to 9 hours, hard for me to see the problem Good for you guys!

I remember Northern Exposure show Kim, but not that episode, fun show at the time, mid-80s I think? There’s also a movie, with Robert DeNiro (or was it Al Pacino) as an FBI agent sent somewhere in Alaska to investigate a murder. It was mid summer, and the sun didn’t set at all during those weeks and the guy could not sleep at all either.

My neck of the woods, today sunrise @9:47, sunset @15:04. ”Sunrise” as a word is an exaggeration in this situation, Sun just sort of lingers slightly above the horizon for a few hours. The view is out of my dining room window, at 12:35 today, that’s about as high it gets before it starts to set again. Today it’s great, since it’s a clear sky



We’ll get the ”Dallas Solstice style” 10 hour day again in late February