No, but in traditional hunter-gatherer societies the short days of winter were a time for mostly staying indoors if at all possible and gathering with others around a fire, sharing handicrafts and storytelling and other socializing. You wouldn't sleep for a whole 16 hours a day, certainly, but you would go out far less than in the good weather of spring, summer, and fall. People used to store up as much preserved food as they could in the harvest season in order to get through those harsh conditions of winter.

Where we differ from those traditional people is obvious. We just continue doing the same darned daily work schedule and traveling no matter what the hell Nature is doing, because we have made making money the condition of survival. This causes us to do much that is out of sync with Nature, and that was my point.