Do people in Scandinavia often work and do things very late at night (I've been reading Stieg Larsson novels)?

In "The girl with the dragon tattoo" by Stieg Larsson, the Mikael Blomqwist character often is up and active, doing things at 2am or 3am in the morning. Do people in Sweden and Scandinavia often do this (could be to do with the latitude or cold nights??)|||Because of its global latitude, the sun never quite "sets" in northern Sweden in the summer. In the rest of Sweden, at least *darkness* never falls. It is, therefore, not unusual to see people out painting their houses at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, because it's still light out at that hour. Even at midnight you will see people walking around town and socializing/chatting in the parks. Yet the summer season is short in Sweden. This "making hay while the sun shines" is an integral part of Swedish culture.





In the winter, however, there are months of darkness in northern Sweden, when the opposite phenomenon occurs: the sun never quite rises. Even in the southern part of the country, there are only a few hours of daylight during the winter.





For more information, see:


http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Work/Life_鈥?/a>


http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/鈥?/a>|||In college, we shared an apartment with a Scandinavian guy, and yes he was up really late all the time.


(He worked part time as a computer programmer, so we'd hear the little clacking of the keyboard until the wee hours)


But he only slept like 4-5 hours a night. It was amazing. Must be all that hardy Viking blood.