We’ll be able to force our perspective a little, and hopefully get out of the office in the evening and enjoy the late afternoon rays on our faces, the most golden and pleasant of the day.
How does it work?
It’s very simple: we’ll set our clocks forward an hour-or rather, our smart cell phones will do it all by themselves, and we’ll wake up an hour earlier.
This will happen at 2 a.m. (which will be 3 a.m.).
We’ll no longer be on Eastern Standard Time (EST), but on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
What does this mean for the evening?
We’ll have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, which means that the sun sets tonight at 5:50 p.m. and on Sunday, it will set an hour later, at around 6:50 p.m. This means that we ‘ll have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening .
An extra hour of sunshine means we can hang out in the streets of Montreal after work, spend longer afternoons outside on weekends, and soak up more of the gentle rays of an (increasingly) spring-like sun.
We’ll be coming out of our hibernation (finally!) and getting some color, a little every night…
What’s the difference in the morning?
Well, as you may have guessed, it also means we lose an hour of sleep in the morning. Even if it’s just a one-hour adjustment, some people will experience it as jet lag, and for those we have tips:
- Get up and go to bed with the sun – the bear technique for coming out of hibernation.
- Wake up with a 10-30 minute red light mask, because red light has the same frequency as the sun’s rays and wakes up your brain – the light therapy technique
- Exercise more, drink less and don’t take caffeine before bed – the new spring new me method
Otherwise, we’ll all complain to each other in the morning and go out to enjoy the sun together in the evening – and it’ll bring us closer together!
Happy sunset!