I'm not that old - or was it someone really ancient like JRoe?
I'd say yes ( but you already knew that ).
Bright nights see lots of 'night' activity here. Early starts following bright nights tend to be a wasted lay-in - but still great to be out at first light. Ditto dusk - frequently stuff doesn't even start to move until way after the legal one hour post sunset.
Wednesday last week we put up two animals that were clearly bedded/resting at 3.40AM. Hard to be objective, but impression they left was that they were toward the front of the resting rather than having been there hours and about to rise. Hand check on ground for second found it want particularly warm or the vegetation hard pressed.