I don't want to set my clock back Sunday. I live in Alabama. It gets dark at 5:00 PM

[bamademo]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's back on Lexapro I go.

I get serious Winter Depression.

[DFW]

1. Here in Germany, it starts to get dark at 3:45 PM in the winter.

Up north in Scandinavia, it's even worse. In Norway, it's called "mørketiden (the dark time)." Depending on where you are in Norway, Sweden and Finland, in the darkest 6 weeks of winter, there is little to no sunlight at all, and it's time of year when the most suicides occur up there.

My favorite time of year here is the first three weeks of June. The sun rises at 5AM and sets at about 10PM.

[bamademo]

2. Summer in the South can be miserable but we have lovely, lovely daylight.

I would not be able to stand that much darkness.

[DFW]

4. I don't like it either

I have long workdays, so I'm usually out of the house in the dark, and, when I can make it back home at all, it's dark again.

Here, the summers are short, but full of long days. We tend to spend most of July and much of August in North America, so we only get part of the long days, but they are glorious.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I am watching a Danish tv series

the first season is set in winter, snow, stark trees, grey skies. episode after episode.
Actually depressing to watch, tho the series is superb.

One of the reasons i moved from the Pac. NW decades ago, could not take the lack of sun anymore.

[DFW]

9. Sounds like Broen ("The Bridge")

A lot of the series from Sweden and Denmark are filmed on dark, grey days, or during the long nights. Winter up there IS depressing. It's not great this far south, either (and we're on the same latitude as Labrador), but the few times a year I have to be up in Scandinavia in the winter, I usually try not to spend the night. Luckily, there are evening flights from Denmark (1 hour) and central Sweden (2 hours) that get me back to Düsseldorf in time for bed.

[sharp_stick]

7. It's like that where I grew up

in Calgary. I loved summer, loathed winter.

[DFW]

10. Now you're getting close to my latitude

So you know exactly what I'm talking about. AT least we have the Gulf Stream and the Rhein, so the winter temperatures are rarely as brutal as on the prairies of North America.

[Snobblevitch]

14. The prairies of North America

either Canada or the U.S. were the last to be settled because of the brutal climate. There were few trees, so settlers had to build sod huts. The summer temperatures hit 100° and winter temperatures of -30° and windchills of -100° were not uncommon. I grew up on that kind of prairie, thankfully, in a ranch house and not a sod hut.

[hobbit709]

3. It allows me to get to the dog park before the traffic picks up in the morning

Instead of getting there while it's still dark, it's daylight.

[PennyK]

5. Florida here, and it does get weird

Coming from New York -- the sun rises later here than it does in NY all year round, but now, it'll be dark early, and still be warm. No autumn leaves. I miss the change of seasons so much!
Also, here, the few trick-or-treaters we get come late. Back on Long Island, the moms would bring the little ones around starting in the afternoon, but here, they don't appear until after dark. I don't get it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. On teh bright side, looks like trick or treaters will be rained out.

I can live happily without a stream of folks ringing the doorbell, which sets the dog off, and he has a LOUD bark.
There will be, unhappily, erratic fireworks. Dunno why, but there are.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

11. You could move to Arizona

No DST, and a few years of the summers here would make you appreciate someplace like Seattle or Denmark. Nothing quite puts you in the mood for a cloudy, rainy day like 117 and random people bursting into flame for months.

[Kali]

12. ...

117 and random people bursting into flame for months.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Setting the clock back in Alaska

makes even less sense. Someone in our legislature tried to do away with it here but ultimately it was decided that 5 hours' time difference between here and the East Coast would be too much.
On Dec. 21 sunrise here is 10:11 a.m., sunset at 3:41 p.m., and actually we don't see the sun until a little later than that because it has to get over the mountains.

[Snobblevitch]

15. I too do not like the early sunset and late sunrise

in December and January. However, I love the late sunset in the summer. I don't know if I would like living someplace like Costa Rica where there is basically 12 hours night and 12 hours daylight all year. If it got dark at 6pm in June, July, and August, that might be worse than the long nights in northern climates.