# What would be your ideal hours for daylight?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662 "2022-03-25T00:42:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/1 "2022-03-25T00:42:13Z")
With the possibility of DST becoming a year round thing here in the US, I though this would be a fun topic. What hours would be your ideal preference for daytime? For me it would be 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/2 "2022-03-25T00:57:07Z")
Ask a vampire?
I like Mornings dark evening light
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/3 "2022-03-25T01:18:58Z")
I get to pick any hours? 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/4 "2022-03-25T01:38:22Z")
Any hours for me would be 7:30am to 7:00pm
I want it dark when I’m sleeping, and enough light for a solid evening, but when it gets dark much past 7:00pm it sometimes doesn’t feel like the day ever ends and makes the transition to ‘going to bed mode’ much harder.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/5 "2022-03-25T01:48:59Z")
Somewhat related: Here’s a fun tool to see if you would be happier with standard time, daylight savings time, or what we do now, moving the clocks.
> **[Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool](https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/daylight-saving-time-gripe-assistant-tool)**
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> A handy tool to help make your case when whining about a biannual time change, following earlier explorations of the geography of DST effects. Tip: rotate to landscape mode if you're looking at this on a mobile device. Measuring if—and how much—DST...
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/6 "2022-03-25T01:51:10Z")
My preference is approximately sunrise at 6:30am and sunset at 8:30 or 9 pm. And I’m okay with more sun. I’ve visited Finland near midsummer, and can’t home with fantasies of living in Finland for the summer and southern Chile for its summer.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/7 "2022-03-25T02:24:56Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Here’s a fun tool to see if you would be happier with standard time, daylight savings time, or what we do now, moving the clocks.
I like how it asks the two main bothersomeness parameters: what is sunrise too late, and what is sunset too early. It reminds the viewer that it works in both directions. (And the maps make me more inclined to think, there probably should be _five_ CONUS time zones, with the borders at places different from the ones we have now.)
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/8 "2022-03-25T15:34:57Z")
Sunrise at 8:00 am and sunset at 10:00 pm. Nice long summer days all year round. Make it so!
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### Author:  [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/9 "2022-03-25T15:56:57Z")
Sunrise at 5 AM, sunset at 8 PM.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/10 "2022-03-25T16:19:13Z")
Reading the replies got me curious, it seems the vast number of posters prefer more natural light, while I want nearly a 50/50 balance. So, for no other reason than my own curiosity, a poll.
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/10))_
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/11 "2022-03-25T16:21:55Z")
6 Am to 9 PM.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/12 "2022-03-25T16:23:28Z")
So, are we calling for the rate of spin and axial tilt of the earth to be changed to create the conditions that some dopers are requesting?
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/13 "2022-03-25T16:24:20Z")
No, lets be realistic. Just travel budget to go to where the conditions are met. Or perhaps a yacht that follows the timeline around the globe. Let’s don’t mess with mother nature.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/14 "2022-03-25T16:25:43Z")
But some folks will want to be with all their stuff while they enjoy their ideal hours.
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/15 "2022-03-25T16:26:12Z")
Which is why I added the yacht.
This one would do.
> **[Russian oligarchs move yachts as U.S. looks to 'hunt down' and freeze assets](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/russian-oligarchs-move-yachts-as-us-moves-to-hunt-down-and-freeze-assets.html)**
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> Russian oligarchs are moving their yachts as the United States and its allies look to target personal property.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/16 "2022-03-25T16:28:46Z")
I’d like to see the course plotted for that yacht, for each ideal daylight hours track.
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/17 "2022-03-25T16:37:43Z")
I would think that you would need to time your travels around the Panama and Suez canals and keep your course set between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn in order to come close to achieving the ideal schedule. It would be a rough life, yes.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/18 "2022-03-25T16:40:38Z")
Depends on what you consider ideal. Stay in the tropics and you’ll tend to have equal day/night lengths all the time.
For those wanting longer days, they’ll have to spend some time north and south of the tropics.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/19 "2022-03-25T16:41:58Z")
Since it’s a rough life, I will, with heavy heart, be willing to undertake the experiment for you.
If you’ll just sign the grant for the funding for the experiment including the yacht, the crew, the supplies and the sundries along with a reasonable wage for my time and effort, I’m willing to undertake a 20 year deep dive into the subject!
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-ideal-hours-for-daylight/961662/20 "2022-03-25T16:43:37Z")
I like long summer days.
We get up early too, so:
6:15 am to 9:30 pm.
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