Questions tagged [jet-lag]

Side effect of travelling to distant time zones, involving uncommon sleep times - with symptoms including drowsiness, headaches and insomnia.

Jet lag.

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North-South travel "jet lag"

Could we feel a jetlag-equivalent effect when we travel a long distance in the North-South direction? We would be moving from summer to winter in one day. Doesn't this affect our biological clocks?
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Does maintaining your home's time zone, while travelling, enable you to evade jet lag?

Suppose that: You are leaving Home, travelling to Destination for 1-14 weeks, and then returning Home. Destination time is behind Home time by ≤ 6 hours (contra this). Obviously, this question is infeasible if the time zones differ by more time…
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Jetlag - sleep or nap and delay sleep until destination time

Possible Duplicate: How can I avoid or minimize jet lag? I am flying to London from Sydney. While still in Sydney, is it better to have a nap and delay my sleeping until London time says its okay, or to stick with Sydney time until I get on the…
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