What does Charley mean by summer evenings were twice as long in 1894?

Oh, dude, so like back in 1894, Charley probably meant that the summer evenings felt longer because people didn't have smartphones to distract them, so time moved at a different pace. Plus, they didn't have Netflix, so they had to actually talk to each other or something. It's like time was just dragging on without all the modern distractions, man.