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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>phase</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="phage.html" title="phage"/><link rel="next" href="phase-of-the-moon.html" title="phase of the moon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">phase</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phase-of-the-moon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="phase"/><dt xmlns="" id="phase"><b>phase</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The offset of one's
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waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a
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useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no
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fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6
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hours per day on a regular basis. “<span class="quote">What's your phase?</span>”
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“<span class="quote">I've been getting in about 8PM lately, but I'm going to
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<a href="../W/wrap-around.html"><i class="glossterm">wrap around</i></a> to the day schedule by Friday.</span>” A
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person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in
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<span class="firstterm">night mode</span>. (The term <span class="firstterm">day mode</span> is also (but less frequently) used,
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meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of
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altering one's cycle is called <span class="firstterm">changing
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phase</span>; <span class="firstterm">phase shifting</span> has
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also been recently reported from Caltech.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">change phase the hard way</span>:
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To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">change phase the easy way</span>:
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To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer
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or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is <span class="emphasis"><em>shortening</em></span>
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your day or night that is really hard (see
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<a href="../W/wrap-around.html"><i class="glossterm">wrap around</i></a>). The ‘jet lag’ that afflicts travelers who
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cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes:
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the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who
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suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of
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time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag
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without traveling.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phase-of-the-moon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phase of the moon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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