DE: Time after time

[bjornwilde]

 So a good chuck of us lost an hour of our lives yesterday. I know we get it back in the Fall but that ruins the vague joke. Anyway, I woke an hour too early, so of course I sat in bed and tried to go back to sleep but did really succeed until it was truly time to get up. Bah.

In honor of all of this, how are your pups at adjusting to changes in time, be they Daylight Savings or due to travel? Do they suffer from Jetlag? How about yourself?

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[a1enzo]

At home, Enzo mostly only needs to worry about going between Windows and Unix time, which isn't terribly complicated. Anything relating to User time is just an extra complication amongst the general weirdness.

I woke up exactly when I needed to this morning and had an easier time getting up and out than usual. Ha ha.

[ceitfianna]

I always have trouble sleeping on Sunday nights and its raining here, so I woke up in darkness but earlier than normal. I'm not sure how much of that was daylight savings and how much was me going over all the things I needed to get done today. I like that the days are getting lighter as going to work in darkness and leaving in darkness depressed me, this is better. I just would like this dreary rain to pass as this week is strange enough with various work things. In terms of jetlag, it all depends for me as it usually hits me but how much hinges on how long I traveled and when I arrive. What I try to do is stay awake enough to fall asleep when its dark wherever I've ended up. If I can do that then I can adjust fairly well, but when going back and forth from New Zealand, I tended to feel it for at least a week after.

Will hasn't had enough experience with long distance travel to have this be an issue for him, he's very tuned to waking when its light and sleeping when its dark. William, Jane, Tumnus, Moist, Sameth and the Pirate King are the same with this as the kind of travel that changes your sleep patterns isn't a problem for them.

Charles, I think is good about mind over matter and resetting his body because so much of it is how body and mind communicate. I imagine him taking trips to Europe with his family and that helped him learn how to adjust as a few of them were by plane and some by boat. He's really the only one who's had to deal with this and due to how much mental control he has, he can cheat.

[1nv1nc1ble]

I tossed and turned personally. Unsettling thoughts and an odd body horror dream that came up out of nowhere (I'd use it as inspiration for writing, except that it was borrowing heavily from copyrighted material). But I got up without problems this morning. Yesterday, I was late to my Pathfinder game, because I thought I could sleep in longer.

Mark sleeps like a teenager. Which is to say, pretty much on his own schedule. How much his new job will change this remains to be seen.

[bjornwilde]

Hank hasn't had much experience with this but I don't think he'd adjust too quickly. The boy loves an orderly day.

Andrea adapts pretty quickly I think. I can imagine the Order's Academy switching time schedules around to make the knights more prepared for odd hours.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk is so used to traveling that he never gets anything like jetlag. Then again, he's on the same clock pretty much all the time, not unlike how Kissinger stayed on Washington time during his "shuttle diplomacy" efforts in the 70s. And daylight saving time is kaput by Kirk's day. I suspect the way time is kept is vastly different.

Knox's body clock is bust, between keeping reporter's hours and Milliways hours. He used to deal badly with both jetlag and clock changes. Oddly, now he can handle it better. But coffee is his friend.

Gibbs predates such concerns. The one advantage of traveling by sail or horse or foot is that you never had to face jetlag. And the first time anyone instituted Summer Time was during WWI.

And IIRC, much of the world was on permanent Summer Time during WWII, so Howard doesn't need to think about it at the moment. Given his odd hours as a scientist, businessman and playboy, jetlag and clock changes don't affect him.

Charlie just meditates his way through things. But in his youth, he occasionally missed appointments after clock changes, in both directions.

Cy's internal computer clock has a subtle influence on him, and he can manage jetlag, etc, much better than most of the team, especially Beast Boy.

And I am notorious for not dealing well with jetlag heading west. If it's an hour or two, I am okay (which is why clock changes don't mess me up that much.) If I am going a long way east - London or Israel - the length of the flight and lack of sleep therein leaves me so tired that I end up resetting my clock fairly well. But going west? The last time I did a con in Seattle, I missed a lot of stuff because I was conking out at 9 pm. (It's a wonder that the last time we were in Denver, I was able to stay up past 10 pm.)

Also, while I can handle the clock change, I think it's an outdated and ineffectual idea, and as a religious Jew whose life is affected by things like sunrise and sunset times, it's really a pain.

[happilyneverafter]

I find a little change in time can be rather ... refreshing.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine is late for EVERYTHING. Eeeeverything. And everyone resents her for it.

Dixie is generally nocturnal so it doesn't matter.

Juliet is rigidly punctual, so she changed the clock the day before - and before Shawn could fiddle with it.

Pinkie's usually up before the sun rises no matter what - one hour less doesn't effect her routine.