# Here Comes the Sun!!! Welcome back Ole Sol **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553 "2011-03-13T17:24:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/1 "2011-03-13T17:24:31Z")
Our life in darkness is over for another year. 😃 😃 😃 I hate seeing it go dark at 5:30 or 6. ☹ You can’t even go to a restaurant for dinner in the daylight. You work your ass off at the office and it’s almost dark when you leave. Here comes the sun. It’s alright. Let’s all sing along. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yGKPHFrHVVY/hqdefault.jpg "George Harrison Playing Here Comes The Sun") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKPHFrHVVY) Did I mention how much I love daylight savings time? Time to start looking at plants for my flowerbed. Get a few tomato plants. Have some fun in the sun. What do you have planned now that we have daylight after work? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/2 "2011-03-13T17:47:25Z")
I am totally pumped to start running after work. It starts getting dark ridiculously early out here… I for one welcome our new sunshine overlord! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/3 "2011-03-13T21:42:09Z")
A few more weeks and we’ll lose the evening sun. You’re most welcome to have it. After weeks of heat and humidity I’ll be glad to see the early evening darkness. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/4 "2011-03-14T09:57:42Z")
I always get a little depressed during the winter. Malaise is the best word for it. The extra hours of darkness does that to a lot of people. I come alive in the Spring with the sun. I look forward to being outside on the deck or working in the yard. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/5 "2011-03-14T11:17:43Z")
Ha, is it APril Fool’s? I mean we still have the rest of March all of April and then we get teased by May before the real Sun steps out! This DST comes too early for me, seriously it is way too early to be looking at an 8pm sunset here! (we’re in the far western edge of EST) come summer the sun is up until 10pm or so, brutal… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/6 "2011-03-14T11:31:01Z")
Bleah. DST? You can have it. As an early riser, DST just kicks my SAD back into gear as I suddenly lose the extra hour of morning light I’d gotten used to. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/7 "2011-03-14T12:26:27Z")
Love it! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/8 "2011-03-14T13:41:53Z")
> [@chela](#): > > This DST comes too early for me, seriously it is way too early to be looking at an 8pm sunset here! (we’re in the far western edge of EST) come summer the sun is up until 10pm or so, brutal… Wow, where do you live that the Sun sets so late? Around here, we don’t see 8pm sunsets until May. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/9 "2011-03-14T19:00:19Z")
Actual time is 7:55am/7:45pm Checking civil twilight, we have sunrise 7:26 am, sunset 8:14pm. Alaska, Michigan. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-comes-the-sun-welcome-back-ole-sol/574553/10 "2011-03-15T14:21:23Z")
Seems to me we should eliminate the clock changing and simply make a planet-wide law: no person shall be required to leave home for work before sunrise, nor arrive home from work after sunset. Live first; work in the gaps around the edges.