I dunno about offices, but it would sure make a difference to me.

signed, Little Ms Rises With The Dawn

I have a window. It opens, and overlooks a parking lot. I sit with my back to it most of the time.

Extending DST is just gonna make there be more time when I have to get up in the dark. I'm against that.

I gots a big window and can see palm trees, train tracks, Ikea and a bunch of other stores, and the mountains beyond. Beautiful Downtown Burbank, S'nice.

I have a non-opening window. It overlooks housing that I can't afford. My window is freaking huge, it's basically the wall I face.

I can see through windows from where I sit, but none of them are mine. They face canyon -- the nice thing about not being too near them is that I can't see the parking lot through them, just wilderness.

Hm. In December in Massachusetts, the sun rises at about, what, 7:30 and sets at 4:15. Those are guesses. In March, pre-DST, sunrise at 6:30 or so, and sunset at 5:45. With DST earlier in March or even in February, daylight would continue after the end of the work day. But:

(1) more dark mornings. I bet there's research that dark mornings make for droopy office workers. (To say nothing of non-office workers, like construction, farm, and all manner of engineering types, who typically work 7-3 rather than 9-5.)

(2) My office, for one, has the lights on all the time. What company has a building with enough windows not to need lights in most if not all offices?? Companies that don't need to save bucks on the energy bill.

I, who wake up at dawn, would have huge trouble getting into the office at 9 if the sun didn't rise till 8. (I'm consistently late around winter solstice.) Whereas, by June it wouldn't matter, except inasmuch as I'd be a raging insomniac at 4am instead of at 5am. And who wants that??

I have a window near the ceiling. I can see sky and trees. But usually I keep the blinds closed, as it's to the south and if the sun is out it will be shining on my monitors at some point during the day.

I am surrounded by windows. I look at downtown LA.

My only objection to shifting daylight savings time ahead a month is that if DST is in effect eight months out of the year, it seems dopey in the extreme to call the time that's only used half as long "standard" time.

Also, would someone please tell me why I brought leftover Chinese food to work for lunch on a day when I have a meeting for which i would like to look nice at 5 p.m.? I have not dripped yet, but I *know* I will.

I desperately need lunch, but I don't know what I want. What's everyone else having?

I'm thinking of going to have half a club sandwich and a bowl of conch chowder. I'm home sick today, and that's the closest I can get to Mom's remedy of tomato soup and grilled cheese without grocery shopping and then cooking.