19/03/2008, 08:15 PM
I was wasting my time a few days ago reading through all the xkcd comics, and I found this one quite interesting:
![[Image: 28_hour_day.png]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/28_hour_day.png)
Now I haven't researched it at all or anything, but I did see if I could possibly start actually doing this. The big plus is, as stated, that you get the whole saturday night awake, and not cause you stay up late but because it's actually day for you, so you aren't tired at all even at 8AM or whatever on some days. Also for me, this allows me to spend time with people in different time zones easily on some days. The biggest problem however is that it depends heavily on the flexibility of your working times.
If you work from home or have your own business, this is quite possible. However if you have a normal job, it's not really possible at all. If you go to school, it might still be possible. To see if it is possible for me I made a little spreadsheet and rearranged the hours a bit. My ideal one lets me go to school, stay up all saturday night, sleep more in the weekends than in the weekdays, and whatever. Here it is if you're interested:
http://tools.endlessparadigm.com/fsharel...&id=hb0wpx
The drawbacks are still:
- You have school at the end of the day on some days
- You live a completely different life than your friends and family
- People are awake when you're asleep, and may wake you up
- You miss stuff like dinner unless you live alone
- You only get 6 days a week
The advantages are great though:
- Stay up all saturday night without being tired!
- You are sometimes awake at night which gives you a lot of peace and quiet to work in
- You are awake at different times every day which gives you the opportunity to communicate with people in any time zone directly
- You get long days, so you can do more in a day and be more satisfied with what you've done
- You get nice long nights
- Because it's not synced with normal day and night anyway, you don't have jet lags if you just keep to your normal pattern
Anyone want to try this? My parents probably wouldn't let me...
Now I haven't researched it at all or anything, but I did see if I could possibly start actually doing this. The big plus is, as stated, that you get the whole saturday night awake, and not cause you stay up late but because it's actually day for you, so you aren't tired at all even at 8AM or whatever on some days. Also for me, this allows me to spend time with people in different time zones easily on some days. The biggest problem however is that it depends heavily on the flexibility of your working times.
If you work from home or have your own business, this is quite possible. However if you have a normal job, it's not really possible at all. If you go to school, it might still be possible. To see if it is possible for me I made a little spreadsheet and rearranged the hours a bit. My ideal one lets me go to school, stay up all saturday night, sleep more in the weekends than in the weekdays, and whatever. Here it is if you're interested:
http://tools.endlessparadigm.com/fsharel...&id=hb0wpx
The drawbacks are still:
- You have school at the end of the day on some days
- You live a completely different life than your friends and family
- People are awake when you're asleep, and may wake you up
- You miss stuff like dinner unless you live alone
- You only get 6 days a week
The advantages are great though:
- Stay up all saturday night without being tired!
- You are sometimes awake at night which gives you a lot of peace and quiet to work in
- You are awake at different times every day which gives you the opportunity to communicate with people in any time zone directly
- You get long days, so you can do more in a day and be more satisfied with what you've done
- You get nice long nights
- Because it's not synced with normal day and night anyway, you don't have jet lags if you just keep to your normal pattern
Anyone want to try this? My parents probably wouldn't let me...