My Daylight Saving Time Experiment to Change My Body Clock

Here’s the link to my video where I show the clocks and watches I’m using to guide my newest time change experiment.

Is there a better way to adjust your own body clock for Daylight Saving Time changes? For most of us, the adjustment of one hour forward or backward happens all at once on one night and bang! That’s it. Good luck making yourself feel right when you’ve suddenly started sleeping, eating, working, etc. at exactly one hour earlier or later than you’re used to doing those things. Well, this time I’ve decided to do something different.

I recorded this video on February 17, 2025, which is 20 days before the start of Daylight Saving Time in the USA. Instead of waiting until 2:00 AM on March 9th to change all of my clocks to Daylight Saving Time AND changing my personal wake/eat/work/sleep schedule suddenly, I’m going to make the adjustment gradually over the course of 20 days. Yes, I plan to choose just a few of my clocks and watches to do this by setting them ahead by three minutes each night for 20 consecutive nights, leading up to March 9th. Why? Because I’m hoping this gradual adjustment will help my “body clock” to switch times in a way which won’t even feel like an adjustment.

Will this work? I don’t know. But I will certainly report the results of this experiment here on YouTube. Do YOU have an effective method for adjusting yourSELF for Daylight Saving Time changes? Have you tried different methods before arriving at one which works? Did you try different methods WITHOUT arriving at one which works? Please let us know.

Again, my selected clocks will be set ahead three minutes tonight (February 17th) before I go to sleep. Then, the next night, another three minutes. Then, another three minutes the next night. And this pattern will continue each night for 20 nights until the selected clocks are ahead by one full hour on March 9th. (And then I’ll set all of my other clocks ahead to Daylight Saving Time all at once.) Also, I will be going to sleep and waking up according to the three-minute-each-day adjustments. Wish me well.