A normal commuting day has me leaving at 6 AM and getting home by about 6 PM, hopefully a little before. The "normal" office hours are 8-5 but they're a little flexible, so I will work through lunch and leave at 4:30 to try to have at least a LITTLE bit of light left when I first leave. But it's full on night when I get home.

At this time of year I steadily get more and more light earlier in the morning and later into the evening. But then when the time changes in March I'll suddenly be in the dark again in the mornings, until about late April to early May.

I'm also on the eastern edge of the Central time zone. Atlanta folks have it good - solar time difference is only like 20 minutes from us but it's an hour by the clock. Our sunset time right now is 5:03 PM, while in Atlanta it's 5:43 PM. That sure would be nice for me. Although their sunrise isn't until almost 8 AM right now.