Summer in southern Europe it get's dark ~ 22:00hrs
In winter ~18:00hrs
East Coast USA is roughly the same as France, so ^^^.
UK which is close to the Artic, summer ~22:45, winter ~17:00hrs

Can somebody tell me why in the infinite wisdom of some gov department do we have to have 17:00 be dark in Sydney?
People get to work @ 08:30, and usually leave @ 18hrs, why is it dark at 17hrs????

So for a whole 4 months we can't do any outdoor activity during the week, then the **** will accuse us of being couch potatoes.