digitaldust

Phew, now I know what I get every morning, it’s not that I’m lazy or go to bed to late, I’ve got Social Jet-lag. Some crazy german researcher is claiming that 50% of the world has permanent jet lag - rather than just a few people liking to stay up late and have a lie in. Perhaps he needs to use occam’s razor in the morning, it’s the best thing for shaving whilst under the effects of Social Jet-lag.

Professor Till Roenneberg, of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, said this meant that at least one person in two was “in effect, socially jet-lagged all the time” because their body clock did not conform with their working hours.

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Prof Roenneberg suggested altering school and work start times to fit better with this pattern would make a “huge difference” to exam results and productivity. He suggested more companies should start work at 10am rather than 9am because the biggest problem is with people who have not fully woken up in the morning.

Suits me fine! I was just looking to see where I could live if I want to live in a timezone an hour behind - but I’ve not got a lot of choice, it’s either Iceland or Morocco. I think I would be quite happy splitting my time between the two if I could.
(via my loose and occasional trawl of gizmondo, no funky gadgets just silly scientists and jet lagged zombies)

It also occurs to me that the term social has nothing really to do with this jetlag/sleep idea. Just that the word is increasingly cool to use at the moment. Social Jet-lag should be being a few hours behind the conversation. Which I also feel quite often, usually to do with the other sort of social jet-lag.