Mapping Bedtimes

I convey a theory that inwards Europe people who alive inwards the northern countries larn to bed far before than those who alive inwards southern Europe. The to a greater extent than protestant, dour northern Europeans caput off to a bed early. At precisely the same fourth dimension those Roman Catholic, fun-loving Europeans inwards the due south are but leaving habitation for that evening's fiesta.

For about argue I assumed that in that place would survive a like north-south split upwards inwards the USA. However it turns out that inwards the U.S. in that place is to a greater extent than of an east-west split. Jawbone has released an interactive map of Average Bedtime past times the States County. You tin encounter on the map higher upwards that in that place look to survive distinct bands of like bedtimes running E to due west across the country.

Jawbone has a reasonable explanation of this trend. They believe that this tendency is caused past times time-zones. If you lot hold back at the borders betwixt Eastern Time in addition to Central Time you lot tin clearly encounter that in that place is a marked departure inwards the times when people larn to bed on either side of the border. Jawbone debate that if people either side of the edge "go to bed iv hours after the Sun goes down, their clocks volition tell that the someone inwards Eastern Time went to bed i hr afterward than the someone inwards Central Time".

There are about obvious exceptions to this rule. For example, inwards close major cities in addition to inwards college towns bedtimes tend to survive a footling afterward than the norm for people who alive elsewhere on the same longitude.

This exception is too apparent inwards the divulge of hours Americans sleep. Jawbone has too released a map of the Total Hours of Night Sleep past times the States County. This map shows that inwards no major metropolis inwards the USA create close of the citizens larn the recommended 7 hours of slumber a night.