phase
1. The offset of one' s waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one' s phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. "What' s your phase?" "I' ve been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I' m going to wrap around to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in " night mode". (The term "day mode" is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you' re working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one' s cycle is called "changing phase" "phase shifting" has also been recently reported from Caltech. 2. "change phase the hard way": To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase. 3. "change phase the easy way": To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is *shortening* your day or night that is really hard (see wrap around). The "jet lag" that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without travelling. In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ af ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ as ] [ at ] [ attribute ] [ au ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ com ] [ con ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ cy ] [ cycle ] [ day mode ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ diff ] [ ding ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ edu ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fix ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hang ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ iff ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ int ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ lag ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ mode ] [ module ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ night mode ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ offset ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ ping ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rave ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ real ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ set ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sl ] [ sleep ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ ug ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ wrap around ] [ zone ]
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