# Your favorite time of day
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 19, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236 "2015-01-19T00:37:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/1 "2015-01-19T00:37:55Z")
After some thought, decided to make it a one choice poll, and not multiple choice. Your reasons for loving that time period are up to you-you love the nightlife, the dreaming time, or a chance to fish on a nice sunny morning, or just gaze in wonder at all of the colors.
The poll selections should be obvious. Me, I love love love sunset time, a golden orb shimmering on the highway in front of me, the warmth of the light as it hits the trees, the colors of the clouds above.
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### Author:  [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/2 "2015-01-19T00:41:16Z")
Easy: dusk. The world’s craziness winds down while the last natural light and the first artificial light blends in colorful ways.
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### Author:  [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/3 "2015-01-19T01:17:27Z")
I became a morning person when I could not find any other time to ride or run. Sunrise and the next hour or so. It’s _ **my** _ time when everyone else sleeps.
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/4 "2015-01-19T01:49:14Z")
When I can go to sleep or wake up whenever I want, my favorite time is around midnight. I usually get bursts of energy really late at night, and the quiet is also a plus. There’s just something about darkness outside and a cozy house that’s nice.
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### Author:  [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/5 "2015-01-19T04:46:52Z")
Is this like … in the summer (sunrise at 3 am) or in the winter (sunrise at 9 am)? 😛
That said, my favorite time is around sunset usually, but that means it varies from 3 pm in the winter to 11 pm in the summer.
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### Author:  [@straightdough](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straightdough)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/6 "2015-01-19T05:27:22Z")
between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. is my absolute favorite time. i have the most energy during these times, and do not have to worry about interacting with people and being bothered by this or that. on the flipside, i despise the evening in particular because everyone is getting off of work and out of school and running amok, disrupting my thought processes and whatever business i happen to be in the middle of during those times. i try to get all my work and general responsibilities taken care of during the morning/afternoon times as most people are at their jobs or school somewhere and i can be left alone more.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/7 "2015-01-19T11:28:47Z")
You misspelled 'round midnight.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/8 "2015-01-19T11:53:04Z")
I’m not sure I understand the options.
I like the sunset, but does sunset really take a full hour? I don’t know, it’s been so long since I’ve actually taken the time to watch one.
Anyway, I chose evening twilight. Preferably with the buzz of cicadas in the background.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/9 "2015-01-19T14:27:29Z")
Uhh. When I get off work during the week. 3:30pm And also, crawling into bed.
Weekends, the very early morning. I’m always up before the sun.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/10 "2015-01-19T15:44:37Z")
I like evening. Sitting with the wife, maybe turning on the stereo, and just kicking back to reflect on the day.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/11 "2015-01-19T15:58:18Z")
Evening for me. I’m home from work, I’m done with dinner, and weather permitting, I’m either taking my doggies for a walk in the park or relaxing in the recliner with something good to read and an adult beverage.
Whomever it was who said this is the time when the world breathes a sigh of relief is SO right.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/12 "2015-01-19T17:37:05Z")
Late afternoon during the week, mid morning through midnight on weekends.
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### Author:  [@ilmc90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ilmc90)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/13 "2015-01-19T17:42:25Z")
Evenings. I come home from work, eat dinner, shower, and relax (watch tv, surf the web, read, etc.) I’ve always loved evenings.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/14 "2015-01-19T18:56:03Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> I’m not sure I understand the options.
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> I like the sunset, but does sunset really take a full hour? I don’t know, it’s been so long since I’ve actually taken the time to watch one.
It’s the entire ambiance of that period of time that I was shooting for. It seemed sufficiently different from how the world typically looks after the sun has set that I bifurcated the choice in question.
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### Author:  [@hyperspaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperspaz)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/15 "2015-01-19T19:16:42Z")
I’m a natural born night owl, so I’m at my best between around 8 p.m. and midnight. This is part of why I work second shift. Plus, I like to get up when I’m done sleeping, not when an alarm screams in my ear and rousts me out of bed like a Soviet dissident being dragged into the street in pajamas.
(Severe aversion to all the bullshit and bosses breathing down your neck that goes along with day shift is the other part of why I work second.)
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-time-of-day/710236/16 "2015-01-19T19:37:34Z")
Dusk for me too. I like the transition from sunny to sunset to stars, and often feel very energized at that time of day.