Been doing typically between 3:00pm and Midnights for over 30 years, with few exceptions.
A couple of times I was working days - between 6.00 pm and say 3.00 or so.... I'm rounding off here, we do 8 hours days with an extra half hour lunch, so 8.5 hours total... but some departments have different start/stop times.

I also did those compressed work weeks - like 4 x 9 hour days, then 3 days off [which were Mon, Tues, Weds...] man that was sweet !!
*But then that turned into a flex thing - not for me - but for the company to the point where I did not know whether I was coming or going... so I'm back to a strict M - F 40 hour week, on 2nd shift, and for me it's ideal - as I have all day to do what i want before I need to head in to the defense plant.

Funny thing though is although I'll be sound asleep in less than half an hour [01.30 am] and up at say 9.00 - 9.30 tomorrow [I'm one of those freaks who needs 8 hours of sleep...] when I am off, I end up going to bed around 11.00 pm and getting up by 7.30/8.00 am or so.

I've got some friends doing a noon to 8.00pm shift, I'd love to try that - but then again, with my current 3.30 start time, this gives me plenty of time to work in the yard, go exploring with my dog, etc... before I have to even think of getting ready for work.

I give you guys credit who do swing shifts, my father did that in NYC between 1962 and 1982 while he was in the F.D.N.Y. and I want to say his schedule was something like two day tours, to days off, then two night tours, two days off... and days was I think 9.00am to 6.00pm, while nights was 6.00pm to 9.00am.
He was a Lt in a busy Engine Company [E-17, Pitt/Delancy St] in the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the 1970s, and believe me - those crazy hours took a very serious toll on his health.....

21 years on night shift here, a lot of 12hrs days and last 3 years mostly 7 days a week. People ask if you get use to working midnights, I say you just get use to being tired.

I still get 3 breaks a night, company policy and all.

Plus working 3rd shift, I get the whole bed to my self. Take my ambien, eat my cup of cereal, watch tv for 10 minutes or so, pop the ear plugs in, and normally up around 3:30. Works good for me and the wife.

It’s not all surfing the net. Sometimes I have to go fishing or grill steaks...

22 years of shift work now, still prefer nights over days. Too many bosses on day shifts trying to justify there job.

I have been on Day shift for a total of four years since 1996.

Ya either get use to it or not....

25 yrs night shift .Just turned 60. It is starting to wear on me.