{"id":171,"date":"2008-02-23T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/23\/a-time-experiment\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T16:32:59","slug":"a-time-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/23\/a-time-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/60277_smile_o_clock_11.jpg\" alt=\"smile clock\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" \/>As some of you will know, I recently moved back to The Netherlands from Bulgaria after finishing my placement with the Bulgarian National Radio. This meant that I was moving from a GMT +2 timezone, to a GMT +1 timezone, so in Bulgaria it&#8217;s always 1 hour later than here. I had no trouble adjusting, but my laptop did. Every time I put it an hour back, it would jump an hour forward. It annoyed me, but I didn&#8217;t care enough to actually figure it out and really do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>So then something started happening. I would actually get tired earlier, I would actually start doing what I should be doing at an earlier time (read: <em>stop procrastinating sooner<\/em>) and for a while, every day had an extra hour to it. That effect has worn off, but still, time is less &#8216;fixed&#8217; as it is when your clock is telling the right time. Time&#8217;s such a strange thing, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you will know, I recently moved back to The Netherlands from Bulgaria after finishing my placement with the Bulgarian National Radio. This meant that I was moving from a GMT +2 timezone, to a GMT +1 timezone, so in Bulgaria it&#8217;s always 1 hour later than here. I had no trouble adjusting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,34,17],"tags":[119,120,158,1043,236],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-mindhacks","category-psychology","category-thoughts","tag-experiments","tag-extra-hour","tag-lifehacks","tag-mindhacks","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}