About every other night we've advanced the ship's clock another hour and we'll continue to do that as we cross the multiple time zones on our way to the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal at Balboa. In his round-the-world TV series, Michael Palin mentioned this phenomenon of "boat lag" that comes about from these ongoing time changes, how it was tiring because almost each day you had to wake up an hour earlier. It's kind of like going through Daylight Savings Time changes for two weeks.
I was curious as to how the crew managed this, whether one watch was shorter each night they adjusted the ship's clock, but it was explained to me that they advance the clock by twenty minutes during each of the three, four-hour watches at night so each watch is shortened by an equal amount.
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