When travelling to a new time zone you need to change the time on your watch either on the plane before landing or as soon as you arrive. Nothing more annoying than being woken in the night by an alarm set for back home.
You also need to co-ordinate meetings on arrival. Yes, you can use the phone on your watch or kitchen clock at the destination if it re-sets itself to local time. But if not that message to see you in two hours time, leaves you puzzled when your watch said one time and the local clocks say another, so now you are so confused you can't remember the time you spoke.
Some people set the new time by the destination time on the screen in the aeroplane immediately on boarding. You can adjust your bedtime in the previous week by an hour a day (with afternoon naps lying down or catnaps sitting at your desk with your eyes closed. That could help re-set your body clock.
CHANGING YOUR WATCH
The next problem to solve is re-setting your watch. It has four buttons to push. On my last trip I thought, surely any intelligent traveller sitting beside me or nearby will know what to do.
They didn't. I said, 'surely all watches are similar. Only four buttons.'
(I'd previously successfully changed a watch using the instructions I found on my kitchen-office pinboard at home. I had succeeded, even though the instructions were for a different watch.)
My tame statistician told me, 'No. You have four buttons, sixteen combinations, and three ways of pressing each button, once, twice or three times.
Fortunately my tame scientist found the answer on the internet from instructions for a similar watch.
The way to remember how your watch works is:
Ask the shop to change it when you buy it. Video the instructions from the shop assistant. Do it yourself to enforce the message. Try it a second time. Then explain it to two other people. Make a video of yourself explaining it.
Change it to your destination time and back every morning for a week until it's a habit and something you can do fast. Find a willing audience. Child, blog. That will be a subject for my later post. How to change the time on your watch.
if you can find the manufacture and model, bookmark that on line. You could also write the instructions in your diary for the first and last day of each trip if you keep a journal. Start a Facebook page for your device. Ask for or give instructions.
Keep a file of travel information for your destination, including the instructions for changing your watch time.
Angela Lansbury, BA, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker.
Author of How To Get Out Of The Mess You're In.
You also need to co-ordinate meetings on arrival. Yes, you can use the phone on your watch or kitchen clock at the destination if it re-sets itself to local time. But if not that message to see you in two hours time, leaves you puzzled when your watch said one time and the local clocks say another, so now you are so confused you can't remember the time you spoke.
Some people set the new time by the destination time on the screen in the aeroplane immediately on boarding. You can adjust your bedtime in the previous week by an hour a day (with afternoon naps lying down or catnaps sitting at your desk with your eyes closed. That could help re-set your body clock.
CHANGING YOUR WATCH
The next problem to solve is re-setting your watch. It has four buttons to push. On my last trip I thought, surely any intelligent traveller sitting beside me or nearby will know what to do.
They didn't. I said, 'surely all watches are similar. Only four buttons.'
(I'd previously successfully changed a watch using the instructions I found on my kitchen-office pinboard at home. I had succeeded, even though the instructions were for a different watch.)
My tame statistician told me, 'No. You have four buttons, sixteen combinations, and three ways of pressing each button, once, twice or three times.
Fortunately my tame scientist found the answer on the internet from instructions for a similar watch.
The way to remember how your watch works is:
Ask the shop to change it when you buy it. Video the instructions from the shop assistant. Do it yourself to enforce the message. Try it a second time. Then explain it to two other people. Make a video of yourself explaining it.
Change it to your destination time and back every morning for a week until it's a habit and something you can do fast. Find a willing audience. Child, blog. That will be a subject for my later post. How to change the time on your watch.
if you can find the manufacture and model, bookmark that on line. You could also write the instructions in your diary for the first and last day of each trip if you keep a journal. Start a Facebook page for your device. Ask for or give instructions.
Keep a file of travel information for your destination, including the instructions for changing your watch time.
Angela Lansbury, BA, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker.
Author of How To Get Out Of The Mess You're In.
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