Daylight savings time & night watch fail
Who remembered that this weekend was daylight saving time? We did NOT.
So when I went on watch at 1 AM on Sunday morning for a four hours shift, Ryan set his alarm at 4:45 AM to take over. But he didn’t understand why his phone was saying that he’d get a full five hours of rest (?!). It didn’t make any sense, and honestly, I was too tired to pay attention.
After 3 hours of watch, I looked at my phone to confirm that I only had one hour left. My phone said it was 3 AM, meaning (whaaaat???) another TWO HOURS on watch?!!! 😵
I wasn’t super thrilled about it, but your perception of time on a boat at night gets really altered, so I went down in the galley, made myself a cup of coffee and went back in the cockpit to dodge the heavy ship traffic of the Southern Spanish coast.
At 4:50, Ryan rushed to the companionway and asked:
“Sophie, why didn’t you wake me up?!”
To which I answered, "well I was gonna do it in 5 minutes..."
“But it is 6 AM!!!” Ryan said.
Indeed, the ship’s clock indicated 5:55 AM, while my phone showed it was 4:55 AM.
It isn’t rare that our phones randomly switch time zone when we are offshore, and our ship’s clock isn’t the most reliable anyways.
Slightly bummed out, I went to bed and passed out within 2 minutes. Ryan graciously let me sleep as much as I needed, and I woke up around 10:30.
As I made my way to the cockpit, Gibraltar in sight, Ryan told me that he’d realized that we had been sailing through daylight savings time, and that while our phones had made the change automatically, the ship’s clock hadn’t.
For most of us, daylight saving time means one more hour of sleep. But for me this year, this was the story of how my 4 hours shift between 1 AM and 5 AM got turned into a 5 hours watch between 1 AM and 6 AM.
Can’t win them all 😉
