I heard that in nature, humans were getting up when the sun raises , does that mean that they were sleeping much longer on winter?

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I heard that in nature, humans were getting up when the sun raises , does that mean that they were sleeping much longer on winter?

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Until the introduction of electric lights, it was quite common for people to sleep a few hours after sundown, wake up and take care of domestic work in the middle of the night, and then go back to sleep for a few hours before sunrise. I doubt they liked getting out of bed in the coldness of winter any more then than we do now, so they probably both slept slightly longer and had longer mid-night periods, both, during the longer nights of winter.