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Re:The Waste of Daylight by e12e on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:48AM (#26463181)
Well, depends a bit on where. I live at 69 degrees northern latitude, with a 2 month polar night/day in winter/summer - all this talk of DST and schedules following the sun seems a bit silly from up here (and we do have forced DST in Norway - although I hope we'll drop it).

An interesting counter point: in summer it's quite easy to drift into a pattern of following the weather -sometimes day will be overcast/rainy, nights clear and sunny. On vacation/camping you can sometimes flip the day to night in summer.

Re:The Waste of Daylight by dahart on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:55AM (#26463200)
Absolutely. DST makes no sense at your latitude, where rising with the sun isn’t always possible.

A long camping trip during the polar day would be sooo weird! I’ve only been to Reykjavik in the late summer, and it was hard for me to get enough sleep.

Has anyone started a Northern mystery novel with “It was a clear and sunny night...”?? ;)

Re:The Waste of Daylight by e12e on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:20AM (#26465111)
Well, the original Insomnia was set in Tromsø (later remade by Nolan):

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0278504/