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• Re:What a poll Re:What a poll (Score: 3, Interesting) by martyb on Wednesday April 12 2017, @06:47PM (2 children)

  by martyb (76) on Wednesday April 12 2017, @06:47PM (#492976) Journal

  According to a wall clock in a region which observes Daylight Saving Time, one could conceivably obtain 25 hours of sleep in a "24-hour period". =)

  That's still covered by the "more than 10 hours" option. Even if you decide to go around the world once per day and thus get a "24 hour period" that approaches infinity, it is still covered.

  Brilliant! I was debating whether or not to submit that comment... so nice to see someone take the idea and run with it! I'd never thought about that edge case -- you wouldn't happen to work in QA?

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  Wit is intellect, dancing.

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• worse worse (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:48AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:48AM (#494659)

  You could actually sleep on the south pole or north pole. Time zones are pretty well toast at that point.

  What if you do that and you roll in your sleep? If you roll in your sleep and nobody sees you, did you change time zones?

  Also, what frame of reference? How fast, and what is the gravitational field? Different parts of your body will be in slightly different frames of reference. When viewed from one frame of reference, perhaps your left side gets 8 hours of sleep but your right side gets slightly less.

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  • Re:worse (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday April 28 2017, @02:48PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Friday April 28 2017, @02:48PM (#501176) Homepage Journal

    The same time-dilation problem would arise everywhere except at the equator.

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