Saturday, May 07, 2016
NYC exceptionality
Time magazine online has an interactive feature about the sleep habits of various countries. Gives you a chance to select your bed and wake times, to see how you compare.
Okay, let's try it. My bedtime is 7PM and typical waketime is 2AM. Tried the interactive thingie:
Whoops! The bedtime pulldown only reaches 8PM and the waketime only reaches 6AM.
It's not just my elderly weirdness. Half of this neighborhood is up by 4AM and already at work by 5 or 6AM. Lots of the younger folks around here work early shifts in hospitals or the air force base. Saves on day care.
Time mag is pure NYC, of course. NYC automatically assumes that NYC habits are USA habits. NYC can't imagine starting work before 9:30. In the real USA, only mall retail jobs start that late.
¶ 2:01 PM 
Whoops! The bedtime pulldown only reaches 8PM and the waketime only reaches 6AM.
It's not just my elderly weirdness. Half of this neighborhood is up by 4AM and already at work by 5 or 6AM. Lots of the younger folks around here work early shifts in hospitals or the air force base. Saves on day care.
Time mag is pure NYC, of course. NYC automatically assumes that NYC habits are USA habits. NYC can't imagine starting work before 9:30. In the real USA, only mall retail jobs start that late.
¶ 2:01 PM
