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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by j_crick on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:58AM (#34879056)
> what's the fuss about doing things early?

I feel like it has to do a lot with the most recent industrial revolution and how factories had to operate, and the school systems built around that. Most of places and industries, it hasn’t gone anywhere.

And I guess it won’t until we solve the problem of massive energy generation for pennies, orders of magnitude more than we have now, and bump up production output everywhere across the board, with AI or else.

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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by cafard on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:28AM (#34879767)
The industrial revolution made us get up with the chickens?
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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by yamtaddle on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:52AM (#34883383)
Winter with a fairly-common work-and-getting-the-kids-places schedule means getting up before the chickens.

I actually think it'd be great if we could have seasonal work schedules. Winter work days should be 6 hours, not 8. Let the whole of society hibernate a bit. Leave at least one or two daylight hours that aren't taken up by work or commute.

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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:14PM (#34886436)
> Winter work days should be 6 hours, not 8.

That'd be offset by having to work 15 during the summer. Up here in Alberta our shortest days are 7.5 hours and longest are 17.

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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by pfannkuchen on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:01AM (#34892185)
I have always felt that my system wants to go into low power mode in the winter. It feels very unnatural to work full time in the winter. And working longer hours in the summer feels natural as well. I think you are on to something.
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Re:Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and... by lightbulbish on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:22PM (#34886547)
In Sweden the industrial revolution brought on 8 hour shifts for around the clock production (IIRC). Something like 06-14,14-22,22-06. Could be similar.
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