Re: [OT] times and habits

On 2014-05-01 at 21:25:47, J. Alexander Jacocks (jjacocks@gmail.com) wrote:

> >> Unlike year, month and day, weeks and weekdays are a completely artificial
> >> invention that has no connection with astronomy.
> >>
> > The majority of people work normal jobs and they expect to get up and go
> > to bed on the same day with the work they do being on the same "day".
> >
> > They would get confused if they get up at dawn on monday and after they've
> > had their mid morning coffee it's now tuesday. This would affect different
> > countries in different ways.
> >
> > Local time does really make things easier.
>  
> Speaking as a person who has worked many different shifts, the clock and
> when I get up are completely arbitrary. I can get up just as easily at
> 2:30am local as I can at 1pm local, or any time in between. So long as I
> have had 8 hours of mostly uninterrupted sleep, before I am awoken, I'm
> just fine.

And if you think of it - there is actually no reason for it not to be so. In the end those are just some numbers on the clock. There is nothing physio- and even not much -logical about them. Why would some numbers on some arbitrary displays affect one’s physiology?

> The only thing that IS hard is when my shifts aren't consistent; rotating
> shifts are brutal.

That’s indeed a very different story. I can have enough when I have to fly long distance eastwards - it can be up to two weeks (!) before I am functioning normally again. And I can’t really use melatonin.. This is not the same as rotating shifts but a bit of the same taste. Still - this again doesn’t have anything to do with what digits are there on the clock whenever any of these happens.

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