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Responding to Tenland

Posted By: Paul Weaver
Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2015, at 6:46 p.m.

In Response To: Fair Danes Always Have Home-Court Vig In World vs DK? (Tenland)

Have you ever experienced a time zone change of seven hours? For me, it is disorienting to travel across seven time zones. Your body's clock is thrown out of whack. Some people call this jet lag. After such a trip, it takes me a few days to rest up and recover before I can remember who and where I am.

When I drive from my home in Birmingham (Central Time Zone) to nearby Atlanta (Eastern Time Zone), as soon as I cross the time zone change at the state line, I am hit with a severe case of jet lag. After a few days in Atlanta, I may adjust, but on the way home, I experience the same thing all over again when crossing from Georgia to Alabama. Now imagine multiplying this by a factor of seven. If you fly from Atlanta to Birmingham, it is even worse, because you actually arrive in Birmingham before you depart from Atlanta. For example, if you leave Atlanta at 11 AM local time, you arrive in Birmingham at 10:45 AM local time. That never made sense to me.

In 1994, I was in four time zones on the same day, and it took me a month to recover. I woke up in Utah (Mountain Zone), drove to Vegas (Pacific Zone), took a flight to Atlanta (Eastern Zone) and then a connecting flight to Birmingham (Central Zone). I swear I will never do that time-zone whiplash again; I am afraid I might not survive.

The Chinese are very smart. Their entire country is all on the same time zone, so no one who flies from one point in China to another will ever experience jet lag. The Chinese approach suggests that there is a very simple international solution to the problem of jet lag. The United Nations should propose that the entire planet be on the same time zone so that no one will ever get jet lag again. Incidentally, as part of the same proposal, during leap year, we should add a day to the end of June instead of to February, so that we will have an extra day of summer instead of an extra day of winter.

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