It’s been a little over a year since I started living 28h days .
I figured it might be a good idea to write an yearly update, and doing it at the beginning of the year feels appropriate, so here we are.

The one-sentence summary is that moving to a 28h-day schedule is the second best thing I’ve done for my health, with the first one being to regularly exercise.
Keep reading for details, what I had to change, some important things I discovered, and some funny realisations.

It took me around 2 months to adapt to this new schedule.
Those 2 months were hard, trying to get my body used to the new cycle while I got super sleepy after 10 or 11 hours into the day, but also with the SO complaining that I wasn’t available to reply to messages sometimes (because I was sleeping when she was awake), which was no encouragement to keep going.

Things improved after I made an adjustment: if I got too sleepy before the 10- or 11-hour mark, I’d take a nap shorter than 1 hour.
I realised that on certain days, especially when I exercised during my morning, it was almost impossible to stay up the full 18h, so the nap helped me keep going while sticking to the weekly sleep schedule.
I still deploy the strategic nap when needed.

When I travel and visit friends, or friends visit me, or I make plans with people to do things over many days, it’s useful to be on a 24h schedule.
This happened a few times so far, and after each one I got better at moving between both schedules.
Since they “match” during weekends, that’s when I move from one schedule to another.
I discovered that it’s important to stay on the same schedule for the entire week until the next opportunity to move back to the other schedule (i.e. weekends).
Napping is the key to smoothly shift my sleep