I would say this isn't a good idea. really all it would do is make everyone goto bed an hour earlier and get up an hour earlier to be able to finish work an hour earlier to see more light after work. After many years of working shifts that include a 06:00-14:00 shift, which sees me finishing at 2 with plenty of winter sunlight left to see so I have a bit of an insight into how this will be for people.
In the winter:
it is very unpleasant getting up 3+ hours before sunlight, something in your head say's it is very wrong, no matter how much sleep you have had.
Your car is frozen solid 4 out of 5 mornings for about 3 months (this winter was 5 months of that)
In the summer:
You feel like a child going to bed when the sunlight is just starting to dim outside. It still catches me out sometimes when it barely feels like mid-evening and I realise I'll be driving to work in 8 hours and I'm wide awake and active. I know from also working a 14:00-22:00 shift that there is about 1 week a year where just after 10pm you could take a photo and it would look like an afternoon its so light so that would become 11pm
But yes, when I finish work at 2, it is light for a while
In the winter:
it is very unpleasant getting up 3+ hours before sunlight, something in your head say's it is very wrong, no matter how much sleep you have had.
Your car is frozen solid 4 out of 5 mornings for about 3 months (this winter was 5 months of that)
In the summer:
You feel like a child going to bed when the sunlight is just starting to dim outside. It still catches me out sometimes when it barely feels like mid-evening and I realise I'll be driving to work in 8 hours and I'm wide awake and active. I know from also working a 14:00-22:00 shift that there is about 1 week a year where just after 10pm you could take a photo and it would look like an afternoon its so light so that would become 11pm
But yes, when I finish work at 2, it is light for a while
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