I don’t care about the specific times of sunrise/sunset. But I do care about the number of daylight hours. About 15-18 seems perfect.
7 am to 7 pm
Works for me.
Either that, or 7AM to 10PM. With the second version I could have supper and still have significant light to go back out and work in for long enough to be worth it. With the first version I’d just wait for supper until dark (maybe with a fast snack to tide me through) but still be able to get to bed significantly before midnight. At least in theory.
I’m assuming we’re just fantasizing.
Both conditions I’m describing do come close to actually happening here (though we don’t get all the way to 10P, and wouldn’t get past nine if not on DST); but neither of them stays around very long.
I would like it to be light (at least lightish, so no one headlights are unnecessary) by 6:30 in the morning (when I leave for work). I don’t mind it earlier - I like it dark when I go to sleep, but light doesn’t wake me up, and I do like it not to be pitch black when I wake up, or else I feel like I’m getting up in the middle of the night. Even when I worked from home for a year, with no alarm, I rarely slept past 6:30 (I think it was only one day in 15 months - I’d been curious to figure out how sleep patterns would change when I didn’t have to get up). Though I admit that prior to that, the ideal to me seemed like it would theoretically be 6:15 to 6:45 - so I wouldn’t feel like I was getting up early, but wouldn’t feel like I slept the day away. I did sleep later when I was younger, but even then it was very rarely past 7:45. I found out in junior high that I feel like crap if I stay up late and sleep late. I know the opposite is true for others.
I also want it to be light until at least until 6:00 pm. I’m home from work well earlier than that, but I like some light in evenings - I don’t spend time outside, but I like to feel like the entire day wasn’t spent at work. I don’t mind it staying light until later, but probably I want the sun to at least start going down by 7:30 pm.
7 AM to 11 PM. And the temperature should range from 20 to 25 (68 to 77). Rain comes only during the night and no snow, hurricanes, tornados ever.
Temperature in summer should be upper 50’s to low 60’s at night and 70’s in the daytime with occasional low 80’s. In December the temperature should drop below freezing, gradually so plants harden off properly, and stay mostly below freezing except for three or four days each month for a break until March and to let some of the snow thaw. A couple of nights should be below zero F with little or no snow cover, in order to discourage the flea beetles. During the rest of the winter it should snow 2" to 4" at a time, building up a snowpack about six inches to a foot deep.
In the spring and summer it should rain one inch a week, spread out between midnight Saturday and dawn Sunday morning; including enough thunderstorms to help keep the charges between the earth and the atmosphere in proper balance. In (relatively) really hot weather, another half inch midweek, again during the night. Otherwise it should be clear or mostly clear.
And it is very clear that the weather doesn’t listen to me. Or if it does, then it’s only in order to laugh.
The weather should be in the 60s to 70s during the day, cloudy with gray clouds, and a breeze around 10 to 15 MPH. At night there should be rain on about 1/3 of the nights, and the temperature down into the 50s.
Where once it never rained til after sundown
By 8 a.m. the morning fog had flown…
You want to live in Camelot
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
I prefer dark.
5:30am - 9:00pm
Yeah. No big deal.
Sunrise at 7:30 a.m., sunset at 9:30 p.m. works for me.
I’m sure there’s a sinusoidal track one could follow slowly around the globe over the course of 365.25 days where one always has ~14 hours between sunrise and sunset. I wish I were clever enough to be able to determine precisely what precisely that track is.
Or perhaps it’s not so. At the equator, the day is always ~12 hours long, +/- 8 minutes. So one would have to quickly jet over that region to maintain a 14 hour day.
That’s without disturbing spin and tilt of course.
This neat little chart shows hours of daylight v latitude v day of year
So to have 14 hours of daylight every day beginning on the December solstice, a person would need to start at 30-50 degrees south latitude, head south gradually until reaching about 85 degrees south on the March equinox, then jet to 85 degrees north. Then move slowly slowly southward until reaching 30-50 degrees north on the June Solstice. Then head north until reaching 85 degrees north on the September equinox. Then jet down to 85 degrees south and slowly move north until one reaches 30-50 degrees south on the next December solstice.
Easy peasy!
6:30am to 9:30pm
Why yes, summer is my favorite season.
I don’t care, as long as they pick one and stick with it.
Nothing silly, of course–no midnight sun or dark noon. Just pick a time and stop faffing about with this flip-flopping DST nonsense.
10 am to 6 pm, I guess. I like it dark, but 24 hrs of night would be a bit too much. 8 hrs of daylight seems like enough. Other people seem to get sleepy and passive when it’s dark, which I find a positive since it means they don’t bother me as much. Maybe I should set up shop in a mineshaft. I could also adjust my day/night cycle to something more suitable than 24 hrs.