I love mornings, quiet, and coffee before the day's activities begin. Having kids changed me. Before them I was a night owl and a great view to me was the city nightscape.

Surly to bed, surly to rise.

I'm your opposite.

I have a plaque someone gave me that states, I'm not a early bird or a night owl. I am some form of a permanently exhausted pigeon."

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so you, lucky man, are the pigeon everyday!

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I don't think that happens where I live. Must be only in certain parts of the country ...

Someone says they were up at 5am I'll quip "so, that's an actual time that exists? 5AM? I wouldn't know".

And there's my answer to the OP. The only reason I actually know early morning hours exist is because I've been "still up" then

But all my Fitbit and Apple Watch apps apparently think that makes me a night owl? What say the crowd on the thread?

It all depends if 3AM is the start of your day or the end of it.

It's the middle of the day that drives me nuts.

Need to work on my sleeping schedule this year.

I’m still catching up on sleep.

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On my most days I'm more like a intermediate bear chronotype.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/chronotypes


I work morning to afternoon shifts but I never feel rested, like ever.


I feel most awake in the afternoons.


I'm exhausted by the time 6pm, 7pm, 8pm rolls around. The fact that it turns pitch black outside at 4:30pm doesn't not help me at all.


Sometimes it doesn't matter how exhausted I am, I wake up at weird hours (generally midnight to 4am) and I have a hell of a time trying to get back to sleep.


Then I get up to go to work and my brain clunks out on me because I didn't get 8 to 9 hours of sleep that I need to function.


Bah Humbug.

I like to sleep-in in the morning and get up around 8:30 - 9:00 in the morning after going to bed around midnight. When I was working, I'd get up at 6 am and I'd be tired during the morning and as the afternoon progressed I'd find I had more energy to work. Since I retired many years ago, I'll watch some TV or read a book until bedtime.

online) new releases and new programs implemented.

Usually, these shifts began the start of the evening shift until the very next morning, from 6-7 p.m. to usually by 4-5-6 a.m., so you could quickly test all of the online and batch systems quickly (and of course, you had tested everything fairly well before putting the new code out there, often weeks at a time), before giving everything an OK (to implement LIVE or production vs. a test system).

So, you bring the systems down, implement the new or revised code on your test platforms, test, test, test, and then bringing the systems back up, at normal times, and then hold your breath, hoping for the best. Usually, 95% of the installs went ok, but sometimes they didn't, and you couldn't figure out why the install didn't work. Perhaps a module was missing...perhaps code in one or more modules were messed up. Perhaps steps were omitted by the vendor when you were going through the installs...perhaps you didn't have enough resources (Storage, DASD for example, direct access storage device) for a particular file or table. Numerous things.

And you had to get it all done by your deadline. Especially if you had a large online presence. Batch was usually better, as you could hold off on not running a batch cycle or two (a batch cycle is like a single run of a stream of software programs and/or tables, etc. Could be one instance per day, or each instance a magnetic data tape was received). Online was a little different, as you actually have live people interacting w/ the systems then.

I hit the grocery store at 6:30 am.
There can be a lot of traffic later in the day.

Tikki

I used to get more work done between 630 am and 900am than the whole rest of the day.

The Sun is not our friend...

Dad was a night owl, and his dad, and his dad before him.
Mornings don't even look right. I can get a knot in my stomach just looking at the way the morning sunlight slants in the wrong direction.

I am an insomniac and try to sleep in when I can go to bed early!

I was a night owl, and I was very happy with that thank you very much. Then some idiot dumped a poor little kitten near our house, and she insisted on adopting and domesticating us (the cat, not the idiot). It took her a while to train me to greet the dawn with her. At first she would walk on my head to wake me up, then it was scratching my pillow near my ear. But now, just a little meow is all it takes to rouse me. I never knew what I was missing. I still don't, really, but she's the boss here now.

The mornings have always been best for my work. I’m usually fresh and creative and there aren’t any distractions, I.e., phone calls, emails, etc.

But I love the night, too! It’s when most of the fun happens.

These days, a siesta nap of 30-45 minutes is rejuvenating.

Merry Christmas, Deb!

So even if it's raining, I am naturally up most of the night till about 3AM

Then sleep like a kitten till 11AM.

We're a family of 4 - my hubby, daughter, and myself are all night owls and all were born in the late afternoon.

My son is the only morning person, and came into the world about 6am.

Makes me wonder if birth time plays a role in determining sleep habits.

But, I am now waking up around 5-6 am every day thanks to my failing body. And, thanks to the drugs, I seldom get to stay up past 11 pm.

But, c'est la vie!