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As We Experience Out First 'Dark' Night...
...what do you think of this idea?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.All I know is that I absolute HATED it getting dark today at about 5.15pm, and it will slowly get earlier in the nxt few weeks. I'm one of those people, who will be in the garden/outside until it's dark if I can. And when it's like this it makes for such a long long evening/night.
Thats why the depression/suidicide rates rocket at this time of year. 😞
Not a lot.
GMT is the nearest, more or less, we can get to "real time" for a whole nation. If it is unsuitable then that implies our culture regarding when we rise & retire each day needs revising. Not the hour shown on the clock.
BST giving us lighter evenings in summer, is fine, because we ain't paying for it with dark mornings because of the greater number of daylight hours that time of year.
IMO the chances are we could be better off advancing the hour even further/more often during the summer period as our normal rise time gets further and further away from sunrise as summer gets going. This wastes daylight which could be more usefully moved to the evening.
Last statement not exactly true, Smow.
As spring brings blooming flowers and longer, brighter days, Adam Kaplin’s thoughts turn to darker subjects. The Johns Hopkins assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences focuses on depression and suicide.
He knows that, contrary to popular belief, suicide rates spike in the light of spring, not the darkness of winter.
“In April, May and June, the suicide rate goes up and is the highest,” Kaplin says. Those numbers can be two to three times higher than in December, when suicide rates are the lowest.
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