Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihnss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihnss!warren From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Jet Lag Message-ID: <2174@ihnss.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 17:09:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ihnss.2174 Posted: Thu Aug 2 17:09:57 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:43:24 EDT References: <1768@mhuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 30My best advice is unless you are either going to phase shift by nearly 1/2 day or really must for some reason be absolutely positive of being perfectly fit the minute you arrive, ignore it. It amazes me that people who wouldn't think twice about staying up a couple of extra hours for a good party or sleeping in a couple of hours on Sunday morning get all up tight about the effects of Jet lag. Unless you are unusually susceptible, 3 hours won't make much difference, and I doubt that the effect on your life, whatever it is, will be as severe as several days of special diets, and eating, and sleeping patterns beforehand. The worst effect of long distance travel happens when you fly overnight on an eastbound flight, and usually wind up going almost 2 full days with no sleep. Even there, however, I suspect that most people will be perfectly functional after the first night's sleep. If you are still worried, try this. Simply shift your schedule by one hour in the appropriate direction before you leave. (Going east to west, start getting up and going to bed an hour later). When you get there, adopt a schedule shifted an hour in the other direction, which on a coast-to-coast trip is only one hour away from what you were on. You never move more than 1 hour in any day. -- Warren Montgomery ihnss!warren IH (8-367) x2494