Which is the most common way to correctly say the sentence below? "Yesterday, they changed the time at(?) 1 hour backwards / forwards, so today I am a bit jet-lagged." Is it natural to say "jet-lagge

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Which is the most common way to correctly say the sentence below? "Yesterday, they changed the time at(?) 1 hour backwards / forwards, so today I am a bit jet-lagged." Is it natural to say "jet-lagged" in reference to changing the time (or something else) not only to flying? Could you give some examples? Thank you very much! P.S.: If there are any mistakes in what I've just written above please correct. UPD.: As Germán Vogel pointed out "A one hour difference does not cause a jet-lag effect." I wonder, what do you call an effect caused by one hour difference? We simply say I can't get used to the changed time.. What about you?

10 Thg 07 2017 06:14

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They changed the time to 1 hour backwards/forwards Usually we say turned the clocks back or forward - when we are talking about daylight saving times. If we are talking about flying to another country then we usually say - I gained two hours - or I lost two hours. Jet lag is only used when talking about the time difference between countries. I am jet-lagged after my flight from the UK to the USA. However, I have heard people say - I feel like I have jet lag - this is when they are describing their symptoms being similar to jet lag. Hope this helps Jane :)

10 tháng 7 năm 2017

"Jet-lagged" is technically not the right expression, for the reason others have stated. But if someone said that he is "jet-lagged" because of a one-hour time change, I would take it as an inventive, clever, and humorous expansion of the meaning of the word for that occasion.

11 tháng 7 năm 2017

In Britain the clocks change in spring and autumn. So we say. The clocks changed yesterday, so I feel kind of jet-lagged today. Or the clocks went forward yesterday (in spring) or the clocks went back (in autumn) yesterday, so today I feel kind of jet-lagged. German is correct that jet-lag is only about travel, but when the clocks change it's the same kind of feeling, so we could say kind of jet-lagged.

10 tháng 7 năm 2017

They changed the time one hour backwards is ok. But, we would tend to say in England at least "We put the clocks back" You wouldn't say jet-lagged. That is only related to air ravel. You might just say tired.

10 tháng 7 năm 2017

Hey Sasha, the right way to say the sentence is, "Yesterday, they changed the time to 1 hour backwards / forwards, so today I am a bit jet-lagged." And no, it is not correct to use jet-lagged because of a change of seasonal time for 2 reasons: 1) You have not traveled in an airplane jet, 2) A one hour difference does not cause a jet-lag effect.

10 tháng 7 năm 2017

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