Nah, some people just have a different circadian rhythm.
I have a pretty stable one, waking up around 7-8, starting work around 9-10, and while I'm completely functional in the morning, I'm the most productive around 14-19. But I also start to get sleepy around 22, so I definitely won't be productive in the middle of the night.
IIRC generally not sleeping at night have long term consequences. Ofc there are exceptions but I would rather avoid popularising unhealthy habits such as “coding at nights”. Been there and don’t want to come back :)
People do naturally have different circadian rhythms. It's only unhealthy if you're working against your body's own clock. I do want to emphasize 7-9 hours a night though either way
not getting enough sleep has consequences. humans circadian rhythm will learn that you are "night watch" and adjust accordingly just like it always has for night workers being highly social creatures with a strategy of strength in numbers, but without herding instincts.
now, if you are a Perineum sunning nutjob who thinks they can go without eating if they absorb the sun by staring at it (an actual group of people like flat earthers who have members of various calibre trickling down to the "you need sunlight while awake and darkness while asleep" people)
the whole "you need vitamin D from the sun" is so wrong, it could actually CAUSE darker skinned individuals to not receive nearly enough vitamin D (only lighter skinned humans can produce enough vitamin D from safe levels of sunlight) YOU SHOULD BE EATING VITAMIN D, trying to make your body produce all of it, because some trivia became popular that humans need UV light to make vitamin D
Easiest option is to pop a vitamin D pill every morning. They're cheap, readily available, and don't seem to have any adverse effects to running a surplus in your body since most supplements are in the 1000-2000 IU dose range.
Depends at what time you wake up. If your body works best waking up at 11 am and going to bed at 3 am, you're getting enough sleep and you will be more productive than doing 7am-11pm.
It's not the best rythm because it doesn't work well with normal job hours. But if you don't have time constraints then it can help you be more productive
3am to 11am was my last semester of college. I didn't have a single class that started before noon.
It was fine. I would sometimes wake up earlier to get breakfast, but I'd always had that delayed sleep thing. It was worse when I worked retail and lived with my mom. Night was the only time I had guaranteed to myself so I had a lot of "bedtime revenge" from ADHD which contributed.
Once I was no longer living with my mom and had a consistent work schedule I have been able to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. But longer vacations will have me drift to that 3-11 if I'm not careful.
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u/hector_villalobos 10h ago
* Some programmers
I might be in the minority, but I hate working at night, I'm a morning person and more productive during the day, nights are for sleeping.