Funny-Yet-Sad Tweets About It Getting Dark Outside So EarlyHuffPost rounds up 20 funny-yet-sad tweets about early darkness as shorter fall days and the daylight saving change push nightfall into the afternoon. Tweeting voices like Rodney Lacroix, jonny sun, and Abby Heugel lament 4 p.m. dusk and lost summer evenings, while Nina Parker urges readers not to mention the 5 p.m. dark for three months.