I was lucky to spend much of my youth living in sunny places like Australia and Florida. Now that I'm living in the UK where it gets dark in winter at 3.30pm, I have found that I too suffer from a form of SAD. One of the worst days for me each year is the day that the clocks go back because that means we are in for almost perpetual darkness for the next six months. Perhaps it's not quite as bad as I'm making it out to be but that's how it seems. It's dark when I get up in the morning, gloomy all day and then dark again by 3.30pm.

I believe that during WWII they had a system in the UK called, Double Summer Time which put us two hours ahead of GMT during the winter months. Although it was dark in the mornings (as it is anyway), that gave us brighter evenings and a sense of well-being.

Interestingly, I've discovered that David Cameron has been looking at the possibility of either reintroducing Double Summertime or putting the UK on the same time zone as most of continental Europe. Either option would lead to lighter evenings in winter, Double Summer Time offering the most light.

Here's an article about it in the Torygraph...

http://www.telegraph.co.u[...]me.html

In the meantime however, while we're waiting for silly politicians to make up their minds, we can always buy a SAD Light and pretend we're living in sunnier climes...

Here's more...

http://www.sad.org.uk/

Hugs, Katie x