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For millions of people who live where winter means short days and long nights, smart lights are one of the easiest ways to make winter more bearable.
Who Should Set Up Smart Lights for Winter?
Not everybody lives in a place where winter brings a feeling of never-ending night, as if you’re hibernating in a cave.
If you’re reading this from somewhere on or very near the equator, consider yourself blessed in the circadian rhythm department. Equatorial countries like Ecuador, Columbia, and Indonesia have stable days with very little variation between summer and winter day length.
But the further you get from the equator, especially when you get beyond the Tropic of Cancer (the northernmost boundary the sun can hit the earth at a 90° angle) and the Tropic of Capricorn (the southernmost equivalent), the variation in day length over the year becomes more pronounced the further you go.
The variation of the length of the day in Bogota, for example, wavers back and forth just around a half hour over the entire year. But the further you head away from…
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