It's not nearly as bad as air travel. We don't go to sleep, travel for eight hours, and wake up before we went to bed. But moving around the world does require adjustments to the clock,
We started out in Ft. Lauderdale, Eastern Standard Time, Greenwich Mean Time - 5 hours. By the time we got to Recife, we had moved three time zones east, typically losing an hour in the middle of the night every few days. Fairly painless.
Then we went to Buenos Aires, our first significant move west, and gained an hour, like going from New York to Chicago. 3 am turned into 2 am. We're now headed eastward back out of the Rio De La Plata for a day's stop in Montevideo, which requires that we drop the hour we just gained, so 2 am will magically become 3 am in another couple hours.
All-in-all, from here on in, we will gradually gain 27 hours one at a time as we sail westward around the world. This does not include the Mardi Gras we lose crossing the International Date Line east to west. I am coming to feel that the names we give units of time are entirely arbitrary and should be ignored much more often than they are.
Here in the rest of the world, time is linear, and we all keep our calendars and datebooks accordingly. The ancient ones thought of time as circular, how difficult to keep a datebook! And here you are experiencing that wonder. I love that you find time moving forward, then backward, even to skipping a day. And it's all okay since your datebook needs only to remember the ice cream bar and dinner. What a life!
ReplyDelete