Your responsibilities this week may be the same as any other week, but your brain isn’t lying to you — we all lost an hour of sleep last night. But we’re also gaining sunlight, so our struggle with time remains eternal.
🌑 Dark Commutes Are Back, For a While
Though you may not be able to tell that it’s darker on your commute thanks to the clouds this morning, the sun rises today at 8:04 a.m., an hour later than it did yesterday. That means the sun will set at 7:45 p.m. today, and they’ll get later until Sept. 20.
There’s plenty to do with all that extra sunshine, no matter how you feel about it — but it won’t serve its original purpose in any significant way.
Created to save money on electricity, daylight saving time (DST) decreases electricity usage by less than one percent today. And while the U.S. Senate is ready to get rid of DST, the House of Representatives has been stalled on the topic for two years. So for now, we’re stuck with it.
🌞 Here Comes the Sun
Boise’s long, bright nights are on their way back.
We either gain or lose sunlight the fastest during the equinoxes because we’re farthest away from the turnaround of summer and winter. And because the spring equinox is March 19, that means we’re in the midst of the biggest gains of the year.
At the top of the month, March 1 was 11 hours and 14 minutes long. We’re gaining three minutes a day, which means that March 31 will be a whopping 12 hours and 44 minutes long, an hour and a half difference from the beginning of the month.
Oh, the ways you can spend that hour and a half before April!
