# Do you like getting up and getting ready while it is still dark? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585 "2017-03-06T22:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/21 "2017-03-07T03:37:57Z")
Doesn’t bother me to get up while it’s still dark, but I do prefer leaving home after sunup. ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/22 "2017-03-07T03:49:44Z")
I haven’t had a choice in the matter lately. Mandatory overtime means I’m at work most days by 5:30. So if I want time to shit, shower, shave, and eat breakfast, I’m up at 4:00. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/23 "2017-03-07T04:04:46Z")
I don’t mind leaving the house before sunup so much, but I HATE getting home after dark. Just a personal quirk, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/24 "2017-03-07T04:46:42Z")
No. Don’t hate it, but no. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/25 "2017-03-07T05:03:55Z")
Hate it. First daylight ought to be pleasurable leisure time, for a cup of coffee listening to the birds and smelling the clean air. Go to work afterwards. In the summer, I call it “Daylight Wasting Time”, when they take that nice hour away from us. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/26 "2017-03-07T05:09:05Z")
For about 6 months I was getting up at 4:30 so that I could meet my partner at the gym at 5AM. The first week was brutal, but after that it wasn’t much problem (as long as I went to be at a reasonable time), and it was great to have all that extra time in the morning. Still, when his schedule changed, I went back to 7-8AM workouts. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/27 "2017-03-07T05:14:15Z")
I vastly prefer light in my mornings. I was just telling my wife how much I’m enjoying the sun on my morning run and am dreading daylight savings since it will plunge me back into darkness. I also don’t like late night sun so the sun setting at 9 makes me grumpy. In general I wish we would just stay on standard time. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/28 "2017-03-07T06:23:41Z")
I have to get up at 11:30 two days a week, and I cannot, cannot, cannot stand it. I live a charmed life. At least in certain ways. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/29 "2017-03-07T10:10:55Z")
For me it mostly depends on how much sleep I’ve been able to get. Having a modicum of light out will only make a difference if I was just barely on the edge of getting 7 hours of sleep (real sleep, not just time in bed.) Being light out will not matter if I did not get a good sleep since the grogginess will trump anything else, and if I did get a firmly good sleep then light or dark also does not matter. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/30 "2017-03-07T10:13:38Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I vastly prefer light in my mornings. I was just telling my wife how much I’m enjoying the sun on my morning run and am dreading daylight savings since it will plunge me back into darkness. I also don’t like late night sun so the sun setting at 9 makes me grumpy. In general I wish we would just stay on standard time. That’s what was most jarring about England last June (that combined with the screens in the hotels not blocking out the sun!) I didn’t have any jet lag going to or from, but it was really disconcerting for it to be almost midnight with the sun still out, and almost as disconcerting for it to not even be 5 and it being bright enough to read out already. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/31 "2017-03-07T10:47:32Z")
I worked as a breakfast cook for years, and that stretch of my career lined up more or less with the stretch in which I didn’t have a driver’s license. I loved getting up at 3:00 or 4:00 AM and having that quiet, peaceful walk or bicycle ride to work. Sometimes I got to walk with the deer, whom I would find wandering around downtown in the winter. One of my more “interesting” morning commutes involved a rather vicious-looking dog charging straight at me from across the street. I was thinking, “Oh shit!” But then the dog sat down in front of me with his tongue hanging out happily. It walked the rest of the way to work with me (several blocks), waited while my coworker unlocked the door to let me in, then turned and trotted back the way we came. I liked to think that dog was an angel sent to protect me from an unseen mugger 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/32 "2017-03-07T11:02:28Z")
Bleah no. Up ‘round these parts the sun starts rising after 7 AM in early October, ends up rising around 8:45 around Christmas, and doesn’t get back to 7 AM until late February. So five months of getting up in the friggin’ dark whether I like it or not. Heck, in December I am out before the sun’s up, do an eight-hour day, and am home long after the sun sets even if I head straight home from work. Round about now, when the sun is up around 6:30, the sun comes in my bathroom window while I’m taking a shower. Makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/33 "2017-03-07T11:15:11Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m a morning person. Even when I don’t have to get up for work, I’ve been known to get up before sunrise. I do prefer to drive to work when it’s light, but that’s only an option part of the year. No big deal either way. > > Just don’t look for me after 9PM… What is this “after 9PM” you speak of? Or, what she said. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/34 "2017-03-07T12:17:27Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Hate it. First daylight ought to be pleasurable leisure time, for a cup of coffee listening to the birds and smelling the clean air. Go to work afterwards. In the summer, I call it “Daylight Wasting Time”, when they take that nice hour away from us. REFUSE DST! Leave your clock alone! Stay on standard time! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/35 "2017-03-07T12:25:28Z")
We wake up at 5:30 and do various outdoor chores; collecting eggs, feeding the horses, filling bird feeders, dumping corn for deer, etc. When it’s light out this is fun. The chickadees begin grabbing seed before I’m done filling the feeder. I can see deer watching and waiting. In the dark it’s one big pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/36 "2017-03-07T12:46:12Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > What is this “after 9PM” you speak of? Or, what she said. Oddly enough, the only time I touched down in Spain it was slightly after 8 in June and as we began our initial descent the pilot ended his announcement with “welcome to Madrid and have a good _afternoon_.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/37 "2017-03-07T13:48:55Z")
I don’t like it, but if I go in later the traffic is much worse and I have the morning sun right in my eyes for most of the drive. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/38 "2017-03-07T13:52:13Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Oddly enough, the only time I touched down in Spain it was slightly after 8 in June and as we began our initial descent the pilot ended his announcement with “welcome to Madrid and have a good _afternoon_.” :eek: But of course, it wasn’t dinnertime yet and wouldn’t be night for a while 😃 We don’t have different expressions for “good afternoon” and “good late afternoon”. If his original language was Spanish, Catalan or Basque (not sure about Galego but I suspect it’s in the same boat), “good evening” is the salutation he would be least likely to use. It just isn’t part of our native mental map. ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/39 "2017-03-07T14:02:05Z")
Not a fan of the sun ever, so yes. If it were up to me it would be 58 and overcast 100% of the time. (I’m sure most people are glad it isn’t up to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585/40 "2017-03-07T14:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you like getting up and getting ready while it is still dark? F no. But for much of my life it’s a been requirement for the job I held so I did/do it anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-getting-up-and-getting-ready-while-it-is-still-dark/781585.md?page=3)