Well put, peekay4. Anecdotally, a good many years ago I had a summer job assignment that led to an entire calendar month of midnight-to-8:00 a.m. shifts. Not flying anything - compiling production numbers and various numerical production reports for a BOF (Basic Oxygen Furnaces) steel-making shop. Around sun-up or so each shift, I had to drive around the massive steel mill works, in my personal car, to deliver some reports to other departments. Indeed the body clock does adjust to "steady midnights" (and some mill folk take pride in their ability, or perhaps it's only perceived ability, to adjust as necessary).But even so, driving around the sprawling Plant 2 of Indiana Harbor Works, alert for gargantuan fork-lifts carrying ingot molds for example, as the August sun was rising over Lake Michigan taxed even a 21-year-old's ability to ..... look sharp!
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