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On the planet I am from
The actual rotational period is nearly 9 hours; for the convenience of the settlers from Earth, whose descendants comprise most of the citizenry, a "day" is considered to be three rotational periods. Typical time management is sleep a cycle, work a cycle, play a cycle. But there's no particular preference for what cycles to do which in, beyond trying to match one's life partners or social set, since each cycle has its own sunrise and sunset (for what that's worth; Sol's about as bright to us as Venus is in Terra's skies). Therefore even the insomniac doesn't have problems like the utter inability to find an open sushi joint at three in the morning, because it's never really three in the morning, it's always three in someone else's afternoon.
Living on Earth, I am used to my "day" being a couple of hours longer than the Earth day, so that my bedtime is perpetually two hours later than yesterday until I have to reset or miss commitments. In the last couple of days, though, I've running something like sleeping three hours out of every nine--which has made me extremely glad my work shift is only three and a quarter hours on summer time, let me tell you. I thought it was odd! But I realized it is actually not that weird. I've just downcycled; instead of spanning three cycles for a "day," my day is now one cycle, one rotational period. It's atypical; it's more common for people to upcycle and run on the ~35 hour or sometimes the ~43 hour day. Or if they downcycle, to run on the ~17 hour day, not the ~9 hour day. But it is not unheard of. Our planet shapes us; we shift to fit her as best we may.
Which, you know, would be fine if I were actually living at home instead of in exile on Earth.
Living on Earth, I am used to my "day" being a couple of hours longer than the Earth day, so that my bedtime is perpetually two hours later than yesterday until I have to reset or miss commitments. In the last couple of days, though, I've running something like sleeping three hours out of every nine--which has made me extremely glad my work shift is only three and a quarter hours on summer time, let me tell you. I thought it was odd! But I realized it is actually not that weird. I've just downcycled; instead of spanning three cycles for a "day," my day is now one cycle, one rotational period. It's atypical; it's more common for people to upcycle and run on the ~35 hour or sometimes the ~43 hour day. Or if they downcycle, to run on the ~17 hour day, not the ~9 hour day. But it is not unheard of. Our planet shapes us; we shift to fit her as best we may.
Which, you know, would be fine if I were actually living at home instead of in exile on Earth.