I discover DoubleTime, wish I hadn't

We left Logan Airport at 5:30PM and will be arriving in France 12 hours later after a 6 hour plane ride. I have experienced DoubleTime, that most pernicious of time zone oddities. I am frankly disappointed.

I was expecting my smartwatch to recognize the time zone gradients so I could get a neat spinning effect, but of course the lazy timepiece only updates once a day. I tried to compensate by moving the hands forward at ten minute intervals, but it wasn't the same. It also turns out that even when it's happening twice as fast as normal, watching the sky dim is even less exciting than it sounds, especially when the sun's completely gone and your just watching black turn to dark black.

Really it seems like DoubleTime is just a trick to con naïve travelers out of sleep: convince them that running from the sun will have some kind of drama so that they stay up for the six hours they do have and just when they start feeling drowsy, flash on the cabin lights and brace them for the sunrise. Time zones have a mean streak.

So, the expected thrill was a letdown, my internal clock is set to midnight, and the day is about to begin.