4 Months of darkness?

Summer in southern Europe it get's dark ~ 22:00hrs
In winter ~18:00hrs
East Coast USA is roughly the same as France, so ^^^.
UK which is close to the Artic, summer ~22:45, winter ~17:00hrs

Can somebody tell me why in the infinite wisdom of some gov department do we have to have 17:00 be dark in Sydney?
People get to work @ 08:30, and usually leave @ 18hrs, why is it dark at 17hrs????

So for a whole 4 months we can't do any outdoor activity during the week, then the **** will accuse us of being couch potatoes.

Four months of darkness Flysurfer? You need to stick your head out from underneath your doona more often.

It's all about time zones.

Because Orstrayia is such a wide country,.. "the wide brown land for meeee,.." as the song goes, most states span a lot of longitude.

Since there is only one time zone for the whole state, they take a mid point somewhere in the state to base the time zone on, hence the places east of the centre point have early sunrises and early sunsets, and places west of the mid point have late sunrises and late sunsets.

Sydnoiy being a long way east of the mid point for NSW, therefore has early sunsets, so you get to go to bed early.

If you don't like it, feel free to move to Broken Hill and you can have late sunsets forever.

In WA we have the opposite effect of late sunrises and late sunsets as a matter of course because the mid point and thus the time zone base point, is taken as somewhere out near Kalgoorlie.
Which is why we're not too keen on daylight saving because that accentuates an already late sunset.

Hi

I come from Hammerfest, Norway, right at the top of the world over 500 km inside the Arctic Circle. During winter, what sun, you don't see it for 3 months and in summer, what darkness.

Getting dark at 5.00 pm, boo hoo

Why don't they introduce daylight saving. Then they can use all the sun they save in summer, throughout winter.
Problem solved.

sorry to go the DLS path again - but Flysurfer you need to live in inland WA and try to go to bed every single night in Jan to March at 7:30pm, with no aircon.
I dare you.

^^^ always havin' a crack but in this case showing you are a bit simple I think.

I am not suggesting anyone has to go to bed at 7:30pm. I will spell it out for you so u don't need to think too hard:

Some people, like the O.P, are suggesting we make the sun go down at 10:30pm. By adjusting the clock.
DUH that would be the same (light and heat -wise) as going to bed at 7:30pm. ........ get it so far?

It would not be real pleasant trying to go to bed at 10pm in full fkn daylight and 40deg. Not everyone can start work at 9am.
That is why I chose to use the analogy of "imagine if you had to go to bed at 7:30pm all summer". Look up " a n a l o g y "
if you need to.

Following yet? Or maybe you do get it but can't resist the chance to go down the old trolling p1sstake path again. Sooo fkn original,

And the O.P is talking about 4hrs of adjustment for some places.

Grow up Loto.