In Classical antiquity, when timekeeping was done with sundials, hours were longer in the summer and shorter in the winter. It was normal to work from about an hour after sunrise until about an hour after noon. In the summer, at Vancouver's latitude, that would be equivalent to about 7am to 3pm, in winter about 8:30am to 12:30pm. Additionally, nobody worked in winter after the solstice to the point were January and February were so useless that they didn't even have names at first on the Roman calendar. July and August aren't what messed up the numbering of September through December. They used to be Quintilis and Sextilis before Julius and Augustus came along. January and February were just uncounted time off in the dead of winter when fuсk all was expected of you.
Doesn't that seem more civilised than modernity?
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