With the passing of a day on the calendar it all of the sudden gets dark at 4:50 at night in Colorado Springs. In a month it will be dark at 4:30. That means in a month the sun will be behind the mountains by 4 PM.
I honestly wonder why we change our clocks and do a standard time and a daylight savings time. At least in Colorado it would be better just to follow Daylight Savings Time year round. In the dark days of December it would be light at 7:30 and dark at 5:30. Instead it gets light at 6:30 when everybody is still trying to rub sleep out of their eyes and is dark by the time you get off of work providing you very little opportunity to be outside and see the sun if you work from 8-5.
Instead we just go into the depressing season of never seeing the sun…