The days are closing in. The daylight is still there - it just stops lining up with your day.
Daylight SnacksCatch the short days, one punch at a time
Pick your place and your weekday. The page works out sunrise and sunset for the next 16 weeks, lays your working hours across them and lights up the daylight you can still reach. Then you get a punch card of sun snacks - ten, fifteen, twenty minutes outside - that fit even the darkest week.
1 Where and when
2 Your weekday
3 The daylight ribbon
daylightdaylight you can reach on a workdayat work
| Window | Daylight | When |
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4 Plan the snacks
One run writes a menu of 2 to 8 sun snacks from what you like, puts exactly the number of punches that fit on the card, and adds three backups for missed days, a note on the darkest week and a first step.
The verdict is a fixed rule on the minutes you can reach on a workday in the darkest week: days off only under 20, squeeze it in from 20 to 59, plenty of light at 60 or more.
5 The punch card
Tap a hole when you catch that snack - punches stay in this browser for the current week. The calendar file repeats each punch weekly, timed for the darkest week so it fits every week.
6 Saved cards
How the free side works
Sunrise and sunset come from a standard solar-position approximation (the equation of time and the sun's declination, with the sun's centre 0.833 degrees below the horizon), good to about two minutes, converted to your place's clock with your browser's own time-zone data - so clock changes land in the right week. The page takes one day per week for 16 weeks from your start date.
On a workday it counts the daylight between getting up and leaving, on the way (only if you walk or cycle), during lunch, and between getting home and bed. The darkest week is the one with the fewest of those minutes (ties go to the shorter day). Each window with 10 minutes or more holds one snack; a day off holds one per 10 minutes of daylight; never more than 3 a day. A returned plan is checked for the verdict rule, windows long enough for every snack, the right windows on workdays and days off, the punch count, word limits, clock times that exist, and no weekday, season, he or she, health claim or internal field name in the text.
This is a daylight planner, not medical advice. If low mood hangs on for weeks, talk to a doctor.