# Six time changes in two weeks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906 "2006-04-02T03:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/1 "2006-04-02T03:12:41Z")
As of tomorrow, I will have gone through six time changes in two weeks: 1. changing from Eastern to Atlantic Standard Time (flight from Montreal to Halifax); 2. changing to Newfoundland Standard Time (layover in St. John’s en route to London); 3. changing to British Standard Time (arrival in London); 4. changing to British Daylight Time (they to it a week sooner than we do); 5. today, changing back to Eastern Standard Time; 6. tonight, changing to Eastern Daylight Time. I don’t even know _what_ time it is anymore. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/2 "2006-04-02T07:48:41Z")
Now you understand the lyrics to that great song from Chicago: “Does anybody know what time it is? Does anyone really care?” ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/3 "2006-04-02T07:52:10Z")
You can come over and convince my 6month old that 1am is not play time. Do what Jimmy Buffett does, assume it’s 5pm somewhere, go have a drink. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/4 "2006-04-02T10:26:17Z")
Last year I took a trip that really played games with my sense of time and everything else - I think I ended up establishing that I had visited four time zones, flown 70 hours (and 23K miles) and experienced three different climates (freezing cold, springlike, very hot) all in two weeks. If I counted layovers, I think the number would have jumped to six time zones - and who knows how many actual changes as I reversed the trip and changed them all back again. I think the net effect was that I was so confused that I didn’t even know what time my body thought it was supposed to be, and ended up with minimal jetlag. In fact, I landed in NYC on Wednesday morning at 8:30 and was at work by 11. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/5 "2006-04-02T14:10:34Z")
I sympathize but hundreds of thousands of Sailors have made WestPac trips from the West Coast of the US ports to the Persian Gulf changing time zones an hour a day. That would be 11 time zones. Eleven straight 23 hour days for guys already on short sleep. This will really mess you up. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/6 "2006-04-02T15:36:40Z")
When I left Uganda to return to Alaska, I went through (I think) 12 time zones in 23 hours. I was incoherent for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/7 "2006-04-02T21:33:59Z")
The worst is Daylight Saving Time – TWICE. Patently unfair for thee and me. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/8 "2006-04-03T01:31:26Z")
On Friday, I went from Central Standard Time to Pacific Standard Time. This morning, switched to Pacific Daylight Time. On the 13th, I’m going to Eastern Daylight Time. On the 16th, I’ll have a layover in Central European Daylight Time. On the 17th, I’ll eventually end up in my final destination in Eastern European Daylight Time. yaaaaay. (I don’t like flying all that much. I get restless and fidgety.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/9 "2006-04-03T09:43:47Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > I sympathize but hundreds of thousands of Sailors have made WestPac trips from the West Coast of the US ports to the Persian Gulf changing time zones an hour a day. That would be 11 time zones. Eleven straight 23 hour days for guys already on short sleep. This will really mess you up. > > Jim Hang on, aren’t they getting 25-hour days? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-time-changes-in-two-weeks/350906/10 "2006-04-03T13:12:01Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Hang on, aren’t they getting 25-hour days? 😕 Heading west, we lost an Hour a day and heading east we gained back an hour a day. But we headed East Slower with stops in Singapore & Thailand. At least that is how I remember it, but now that I think about it I do have it back wards don’t I. :smack: It was almost 20 years ago and I mentioned we all went a little crazy. We were at sea for 100+ days at one stretch. Thanks **Malacandra** , I definitely have a bad memory lodged into my brain. Kind of scary. Jim