Is it ever too late to have lights on?

If that's what the homeowner wants, then lights can be on any time. Our under cabinet lights are on all night long. We dim them, but they stay on all night. Before we had those, the light over the sink stayed on all night.

I have lights on in my house at all times. For twenty years I was a night shift night. For the last thirteen I have worked days with a few nights on weekends for extra. If I can’t sleep, I might be crafting, sew ring, cooking, watching tv, or if I am really crazy-cleaning up! So, yeah, lights on inside day or night.

From whose or what point of view? A neighbour? Partner? Wasting electricity? Safety?

In your own home? Of course not. Shining a floodlight on the neighbors? Never ok.

No.

I am wondering why it matters. It's my house. Hubby was on night shift recently so we had lights on at all hours. He wouldn't go to bed until sometime between 5-7 a.m. He's on days now so it doesn't matter but . . . We have 4 motion floods on our house that will come on if they detect something and stay on for a short while.

In general, light(s) on at any given time is acceptable.
I am a night owl, so the light is always on late at night into the early hours(1:00am-2:00am-ish).

I am one who likes to have lights on(not all, but at least one). I like brightness. The lights must be on when I watch TV(no TV watching in the dark!....not a fan of dark movies theaters either.). Except when sleeping, then it absolutely must be dark.

When trying to keep the power bill at a minimum, someone leaving lights on (at any given hour of the day) when they leave a room, because they can't be bothered to turn them off....that is not acceptable. 

People in the same household sometimes have jobs with different hours. People have insomnia. I used to love being up in the after midnight hours when it was totally quiet, no traffic noises. Fears can prompt people to leave lights on st night.

So how did this question ever come up?

Inside, lights can be on at any time (although it drives my DH crazy that I only turn on lights when I absolutely have to - he's always griping about how I "sit around in the dark")

Outside lights are only on when we're expecting company. My neighbor casually mentioned that we don't leave our porch light on the other day when she was complaining about how dark our street was (She had the utility department install a streetlight for her back yard that blasts my back yard with harsh yellow LED light all night long - they charge her $11 a month for it. I've ordered a tree to plant to block it out so we can actually enjoy the fire pit we just built a few months ago, but it'll be years before it's big enough to do the job - grrr...). I thought it was odd that she thought everyone's porch lights should burn all night long...

No.

No. No specific time.

For the most part, Every time I go into my kitchen, I have to turn lights on to do things. I have no direct outside light into my kitchen.

Another no.

I don't understand the context of the question I guess.

Indoor, lights will be on in my house anytime I want them on frankly. A lot of times I'll leave the over stove light on at the low setting. Especially if I have company.

As far as outdoor, the lights at the back of my house, and the front of my house come on at dusk, and go off in the morning. They are automatic based on the amount of light. I do have one motion light on the dark side of the house, which is where my bedroom is. That does seem to get triggered by animals at night sometimes. I feel safer with my outside lights on.

Indoor lights? No, unless it’s disturbing someone else in the house or if it serves no purpose other than wasting energy because someone is too lazy to turn it off.