Comments on: 24 Hours Not Enough? http://supplespub.com/productivity/2007-05-16/24-hours-not-enough/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: mark http://supplespub.com/productivity/2007-05-16/24-hours-not-enough/#comment-969 mark Wed, 16 May 2007 22:02:20 +0000 http://supplespub.com/productivity/2007-05-16/24-hours-not-enough/#comment-969 This really comes practically down to 2 issues. First, how many waking hours can a person have? We typically assume 16 hours of waking, 8 hours sleeping in 24 hour period. So, reset and wake 17 hours and sleep for 7. People can get used to this and more. I bet military people subsist on much less sleep. It's NOT putting 25 hours into a day - it's just extending how long you can routinely function. If a person tried to put a "25th" hour into just their day, and the rest of society went along on "normal" time, the individual would begin to get out of sync with everyone else. After perhaps 10 days or so, they would have slowly ratched their way around everyone else's static clock, so that they might well be waking while others are sleeping and vice versa. Unless they kept the same routine, but that's really just staying away an extra hour, it's not making a 25 hour day. Two different things. So, the second point. Time is irrelevant - the concept is just to be able to provide structure and organization to people's activities so they can work together. If we want to have more hours in a day we could all just shift to more hours and fewer days of the week. I'd be in favor of dumping Monday. So, Tuesday through Sunday it is. We'll make them 28 hour days. Should be able to pack more in that way right? This really comes practically down to 2 issues. First, how many waking hours can a person have? We typically assume 16 hours of waking, 8 hours sleeping in 24 hour period. So, reset and wake 17 hours and sleep for 7. People can get used to this and more. I bet military people subsist on much less sleep. It’s NOT putting 25 hours into a day - it’s just extending how long you can routinely function.

If a person tried to put a “25th” hour into just their day, and the rest of society went along on “normal” time, the individual would begin to get out of sync with everyone else. After perhaps 10 days or so, they would have slowly ratched their way around everyone else’s static clock, so that they might well be waking while others are sleeping and vice versa. Unless they kept the same routine, but that’s really just staying away an extra hour, it’s not making a 25 hour day. Two different things.

So, the second point. Time is irrelevant - the concept is just to be able to provide structure and organization to people’s activities so they can work together. If we want to have more hours in a day we could all just shift to more hours and fewer days of the week. I’d be in favor of dumping Monday. So, Tuesday through Sunday it is. We’ll make them 28 hour days. Should be able to pack more in that way right?

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