I'm a late August baby, too. I didn't mind dark evenings too much until about 10 years ago, but now they affect my life too much because I find it almost impossible to drive in the dark - these LED headlights blind me and then I can't adjust quickly to see road edges etc.. So I'm a prisoner indoors and it's that which ruins the comfortable, cosy feeling of Winter evenings it also limits me massively, can't go to the theatre, visit friends a few miles away etc., etc..
In desperation I've just bought some 'night-driving-glasses'- they are Roy Orbison size with a plain yellow lens (£30 Specsavers) which fit over your normal glasses. Tried them out last week in twilight and they helped a bit - will let you know if they work in the real dark, because I have to drive 57 miles back along the A64 from baby-sitting duties at youngest sprogs every Monday. If they don't, I will have to sleep over, which I don't want to do.