❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning

❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night

☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

@janusrose Well, north of the Arctic Circle you can't really do much about it :p.

Polar nights must be rough. Haven't been, but it's on the bucket list.

@Elizafox @janusrose

Its really nice, but some of us get winter melancholia (they have these light-rooms to help counter that in some clinics).
Do check out summers too though - those are the best here. It never ever gets really dark.

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Kinda hard when you live on the moon...
@janusrose i almost misread the last one as "that we have to ratio The Sun" (as in the newspaper)
@rnd the correct The Sun ration is of course none, or a ratio of 0:∞
@janusrose als the sun reaches its daily peak at 12 o clock
@janusrose We have full moon right now. Isn’t that enough?
@janusrose So true. I've been so much better mentally since wfh and having real daylight all day.
@janusrose ☑️ we also shouldn't exactly align sunlight hours with being forced to be in an office
@janusrose a thousand times this...
@janusrose Yebbut that depends on your latitude. Rome/New York, OK. Dublin etc, less so. Helsinki/Stockholm/Oslo & points north: not so much at all.

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NY's shortest day is nearly 10 hrs long
Dublin < 7.5.
Helsinki about 5.

(App at http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie:3838/apps/suncalc)

Sunrise and set

@janusrose Decent candidate platform.
@janusrose as long as we don't work dawn to dusk in the summer
Shortening the workday to 7 hours from November to February sounds reasonable, there are a lot of holidays during this time anyway
@janusrose the real crime here is that it’s getting dark at like 5pm now AND it’s still like 80 °F here during the day. at this point in my life, i’ve gotten used to the dst change and doing away with it would throw me off, but it should NOT be allowed to happen before the temperature actually drops because this just feels wrong
@janusrose so I live in #Iceland, and… inb4 Daylight Scaling Time. 
@rysiek @janusrose I was going to say: it is very much dependent on where you live. In certain places of the world, that would just not be feasible. Even for myself in Massachusetts some days there are only 9 hours of daylight so when I factor in my commute there’s no way I’m seeing light when I leave home AND when I get back

@janusrose When you live far enough north, there are times of the year that you only get sun for an hour or so at some times of the year. And if you live even further north, you have times of the year where you see the sun all hours of the day :p

I assume the same goes for south but on the opposite time of the year.

For the record, I agree that we should have shorter workdays. I'm not saying this to disagree with you :)

@janusrose ... which kinda means that working in the Far North is a bad idea?

I suppose what we could do instead is work longer hours in the summer to make up for lost hours in the winter....?

@janusrose Maybe we should more, shorter hours in the winter when daylight is precious, and fewer/longer in the summer. But work the same number all year #likeTheRomansMaybe

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⚠️ we shouldn't have to work and waste daylight

@janusrose galaxy brain: we should go back to the system in medieval Europe, when the day was split up into 12 hours and the night was split up into 12 hours regardless of how long each actually were, so in the winter the day hours would be really short and the night hours would be really long. that way everyone gets daylight, works the same number of hours, but still spends less time at work. this is a win fucking win situation.
@janusrose totally, but also can you please tell the dog that he only gets to pee when the sun is on
@janusrose so no more then 8 hours and 30 minutes? *Looks at December*
@janusrose truth. I think most people’s ability to be productive diminishes after 6 hours. Also, jobs that can be done remotely should have that freedom. Forcing folks to live near an office (usually with higher housing costs), spend time and $ commuting, losing precious hours of the day, does nothing for productivity or employee morale.
@janusrose that means in Germany you work only 4-5 hours in winter ❄️
@janusrose How about working sunrise to sunset year round?
@janusrose back to the Roman season based hour?

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thank you - this is great.

down with #Capitalism and let's change our ways of being.

we have enough resources to given everyone a safer more comfortable life in line with your great post.

@janusrose I like the idea, but in places like London is not possible! 🐾