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Comment by chrisseaton | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why people need sunlight for after-work activities though? Unless your hobby is calibrating sun-dials what are you doing?

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Um, pretty much every outdoor activity? Hiking, yard work, sports, and even just socializing outdoors are pretty dramatically affected by the sun going down.

Most outdoors activities are safer and more pleasant when there is some sunlight (think: walking through a forest, hiking, swimming in a lake, sports, having a picnic, etc).

Because we want to be outside on the sun. And before work there is a.) dark anyway b.) time pressure to finish that activity for work/school.

I guess I don't get what activities people are doing that need the sun. Sports pitches for example have floodlights. When I run in the evening I carry a torch. Where I live a bit further north it's going to be dark unless you shift the day by like three hours. We manage to do things after work just fine.

Some sports aren't played in areas with big flood lights, and many people don't live near that kind of infrastructure at all. It's totally fine if you aren't interested in those activites, but it's a little weird to me that you seem unaware that they even exist and millions of people like to do them.

No one said "totally impossible to do anything".

We want to do things on the sun. We don't want to have to carry torch. We want to get what little vitamin D we can get from more then just pills.

It is cool to see outside without having to go where floodlights are. Taking walk and see around, for example.

> We want to do things on the sun.

Just seems a bit disproportionate to offset everyone else's lives by an hour so you can have a walk in the sun or whatever.

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