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I really don't understand the dependency on hours of the clock. Would a student struggling in an 8am class in Pacific time suddenly excel if they moved to the

by hughes 10y ago

I really don't understand the dependency on hours of the clock. Would a student struggling in an 8am class in Pacific time suddenly excel if they moved to the East coast and went to 11am classes starting at the same moment? Is there any variation between the east and west extremes of a given time zone? Is 11am post daylight savings as effective as 11am before shifting the clocks? Or is this more about the social habits of the people around the students than the height of the sun in the sky?

alnitak 10y ago
The assumption here is probably based on the sleeping pattern of people.
joshkpeterson 10y ago
It's about when people go to sleep and wake up, which is based off biorhythms and cultural factors. Students are going to stay up late studying no matter what.
YokoZar 10y ago
For healthy normal people, when you travel your circadian rhythms reset your body's internal clock and sleeping schedule based mostly on sunlight exposure. It takes between a few days and a week to adjust (this is exactly jet lag). There is absolutely variation between time zones extremes. The Spanish, for instance, notoriously eat and stay up "late" compared to the Polish or Germans. All three countries are in the same time zone, despite the sun setting about 2 hours later in Spain. Social habits do matter (the Spanish schedule is somewhat more delayed than the 2 hours you might expect from sunlight alone). If you'd like to look up more on this topic, you can read about light therapy, sleep hygiene, shift worker syndrome (where normal people try to sleep later than natural), and delayed sleep phase syndrome (where night owls try to sleep earlier than natural).