Comment Noon is not the middle of the 'human' day (Score 1) 282
If we want to optimize to have the most hours of sunshine : assuming 16 hours awake, 8 hours asleep, and noon is the middle of your day. This would mean that you get up at 4 AM and go to sleep at 8 PM.
Ask yourself : when do you usually get up and when do you go to sleep. Align the sunlight with that. Let's say wake up at 6 AM and go to sleep at 10 PM. Then the sun should be at its highest point at 2 PM.
About getting enough light in the morning... there are inventions for that.
Also, you're all sleeping with your windows or curtains shut, so you don't get any of the early morning light anyway.
And lots of people work in an environment without any direct sunlight.
About the children getting to school... if you arrange it so that they have more light in the morning, they'll have more days when they return home in the dark. And there are also after-school activities that they will go to in the dark. So you have to make traffic safe in the dark anyway.