If 28 Hours Daily and Only 6 Days per Week

[tuckerkao]

How will your life be different if you have 28 hours to spend daily but only 6 days available in a week?

The total length of time is the same within each week, the sunrise and sunset are in the different patterns as usual, think it as another planet rotation science.

The week becomes Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

 

[civvver]

Well my guess is we would work 12 hours a day tuesday-friday and get same 2 day weekend, and we'd probably need 10 hours of sleep vs 8. So just more of the same in longer spurts.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

An interesting variation on the question is how would potential colonists on Mars cope with the extra ~30 minutes in each day.

 

[tuckerkao]

Well my guess is we would work 12 hours a day tuesday-friday and get same 2 day weekend, and we'd probably need 10 hours of sleep vs 8. So just more of the same in longer spurts.

But if we can eat only 3 meals per day instead of 4, then it's more economic because the 12 hours working day schedule still fit to the breakfast, lunch and dinner pattern.

I personally prefer a longer day, so we get more jobs done on a single streak, also the 28 hours can be re-divided into the longer 24 hours, so each minute and each second are a bit slower.

 

[MaryKB]

An interesting variation on the question is how would potential colonists on Mars cope with the extra ~30 minutes in each day.

I feel like that'd be the least of their concerns

 

[hobbsyoyo]

But if we can eat only 3 meals per day instead of 4, then it's more economic because the 12 hours working day schedule still fit to the breakfast, lunch and dinner pattern.

I personally prefer a longer day, so we get more jobs done on a single streak, also the 28 hours can be re-divided into the longer 24 hours, so each minute and each second are a bit slower.

I don't think 3 or 4 meals a day is a fundamental thing. I think people can be fine on 1 or 10.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I'd love 28 hour days. I'd probably do pretty much the same with my days as I do now, but get a healthy amount of sleep.

 

[uppi]

I feel like that'd be the least of their concerns

Yeah, I feel like my internal clock prefers a day slightly longer than 24 hours, anyway. So 30 minutes extra would probably be quite nice. Just leave those strange morning persons on the ground.

4 hours extra per day might be pushing it, though.

 

[MaryKB]

Well my guess is we would work 12 hours a day tuesday-friday and get same 2 day weekend, and we'd probably need 10 hours of sleep vs 8. So just more of the same in longer spurts.

Wouldn't that be 10 hour days?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I think if the day/night cycle gets too far off of 24 hours you will end up breaking up your time in 24 hour chunks regardless of where the sun is in the sky.

 

[civvver]

I don't think 3 or 4 meals a day is a fundamental thing. I think people can be fine on 1 or 10.

Yes 3 meals a day is a very modern development along with the 40 hour work week and weekends off, all kind of brought about by mass production factory jobs where everyone needs to take breaks at the same time cus it stops the line. I believe in roman times they mostly ate one meal a day.

 

[tuckerkao]

Wouldn't that be 10 hour days?

The total amount of working time will be the same. However, the weekly commute time will be shorter, so much lighter traffic jams and less environmental pollution.

Would like to know your daily commute time since it'll be very important to evaluate the total amount of usable free time afterward.

Of course, the daily working time cannot exceed a certain limit, otherwise the stress build up quick. 10-11 hours daily is still in the acceptable range.

I think if the day/night cycle gets too far off of 24 hours you will end up breaking up your time in 24 hour chunks regardless of where the sun is in the sky.

I think our physical bodies will function differently when the cycle changes because the main source of human energy coming from the sunshine.

The best way is to design a 24 hours clock with a longer second, thus a slower minute, so your brain reads the pattern correctly, although the absolute length of time = 28 Earth hours.

 

[uppi]

I think if the day/night cycle gets too far off of 24 hours you will end up breaking up your time in 24 hour chunks regardless of where the sun is in the sky.

Yes, but not exactly 24 hour chunks. Some would prefer 26 hour chunks, others maybe 22 hour chunks.

 

[The_J]

Why not try ^^?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yes, but not exactly 24 hour chunks. Some would prefer 26 hour chunks, others maybe 22 hour chunks.

I feel like that would cause a lot of issues. I think it would be much better and more natural if everyone had the same clock and calendar on the same planet.

 

[Snerk]

I'd love 28 hour days. I'd probably do pretty much the same with my days as I do now, but get a healthy amount of sleep.

This.

 

[civvver]

Unfortunately society won't let us experiment with these sleep cycles. My ideal sleep time is something like 1am to 9 or 10am, but schools and work open waaay before that so I'm forced to adjust my body's natural rhythm to fit into a convention born from agricultural times when you had to work when the sun was out.

 

[uppi]

I feel like that would cause a lot of issues. I think it would be much better and more natural if everyone had the same clock and calendar on the same planet.

Of course it would be much better. More natural, I am not so sure. Why would a hypothetical human who has never been on earth keep an exact 24 hour cycle?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Of course it would be much better. More natural, I am not so sure. Why would a hypothetical human who has never been on earth keep an exact 24 hour cycle?

They've done experiments in caves showing our circadian rhythms are largely immutable. It is very difficult to break away from it even with artificial lighting and trying to do so ends up causing physical and psychological damage to people over time. They also found a subset of people with either shorter or longer natural rhythms (can't remember which) that tend to have more distressed sleep in the real world due to the mismatch. I do know the research was old and I don't actively look for this stuff so maybe they've found something new. I just remember the takeaway is that we're biologically tied to a 24 hour cycle.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

They've done experiments in caves showing our circadian rhythms are largely immutable. It is very difficult to break away from it even with artificial lighting and trying to do so ends up causing physical and psychological damage to people over time.

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