In Southern California, Sunsets Before 5 Are Way Too Early
The sun drops below the Pacific Ocean and another Southern California day transforms into nighttime.
It’s a beautiful scene and it’s repeated almost nightly along the coast of the Golden State, but at certain times of the year there’s one problem: it happens too early. Way too early.
When Daylight Savings Time ends, this happens just past 5 o’clock. By December, it’s about 4:45 p.m. Yes, 4:45! We’re dark by 5, so I say why not just keep Daylight Savings Time on a year-round basis?
I live in Cali. I need my sunshine. It’s vitamins for the skin, good for my tan and great for my soul. After all, when the sun it out, I’m vibrant and positive.
Okay, I’m pretty good at night, too, but I don’t want it introducing itself to me before I’m ready for it.
The winter days are short enough anyway, so why not make them last as long as possible? I mean, it’s not like I’m up at 5 a.m., or whatever time the sun comes up during regular time. I definitely lose that extra hour of sunshine provided by Daylight Savings Time.
When it gets dark at 5, it throws my system into a kind of “what’s going on here” mode. I’ll be chatting with friends thinking it’s close to midnight, ready to call it a night, only to check the time on the phone and see it’s only something like 8 o’clock.
I generally like to eat dinner half hour or so after the sunset, but in regular time, that’s 5:30. That’s senior citizens’ Early Bird” time!
These changing of the times is also confusing to foreigners traveling to USA, and how many flights have they missed because they did not know to “spring forward” or “fall back.”
So I say to the state of California and everywhere else in the USA, let’s go to year-round Daylight Savings Time.
Cheers!
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