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Any 3rd Shift/Overnight workers out there?

nhsummitmommy
over 9 years ago
Curious if anyone else works the overnight shift and what they have their sleep schedule set to. I currently have it set for my working sleep schedule but on my days off it will only record any sleep before midnight, so my sleep average is a lot lower than I think it should be. Is the only way to compensate for alternating sleep schedules is to manually active sleep mode or change it within the settings every time I need to do so?

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    I'm a shift worker (2 x 12 hour days, 2 x 12 hour nights) and I've given up trying to set anything up as it was just too much bother.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 8 years ago
    Bummer you didn't get an answer. I'm in the same situation 4x10 hr shifts overnight. Then back to normal schedule. Please post if you figure it out
  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Sorry to bump this thread.

    Garmin should allow user to enter the sleep schedule for the benefit of rotating workers.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Steady graveyards, here, with weekend sleeping times all over the map.  Using a Vivoactive 4.  I leave mine set to the workday sleep pattern, and ignore the fact that the average is skewed low as a result.  I've tried adjusting the sleep/wake times for weekend sleeping (just before I go for a sleep), but it seems that it fails to recognize ANY sleep on the day I change the times - so that's an even worse result.  

    I've just found that I can edit the times after the fact, on the iphone app (today's sleep report on the "my day" screen, go in and hit the top-right three dots to get to the 'edit' screen).  I did some experimenting:  added sleep on a day it had recorded nothing (the graph showed it all as "light sleep"), and adjusted two other sleeps to a wider span - for one, the graph showed it as "awake" (valid, based on heart rate/movement graph), and for the other it showed "light sleep" again - also valid, based on HR/movement.  I don't know if this method would ever give you deep or REM sleep info on the graph, but it's maybe better than nothing.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I'm a shift worker, alternating between AM, PM and overnight shifts of 10hrs. It would seem sensible to me to allow a larger number of sleep patterns to be setup, perhaps thus eliminating this annoying problem.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to DarthJakesum

    My sleeping time is flucutaing a lot, and the watch (Garmin Instinct) has no problem detecting it, whenever I sleep. Perhaps you could try widening the pre-defined sleep time in device settings. Try setting it from 0:00 to 23:59, or from 12:00 to 11:59, perhpas it will then work better for you too,

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks for the suggestion, I had considered trying 00:00 as Normal Wake Time to 23:59 as Normal Bed Time too but wasn't sure if it would have the intended result. Shall give it a go and report back.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to DarthJakesum
    DarthJakesum said:
    I had considered trying 00:00 as Normal Wake Time to 23:59 as Normal Bed

    Not a good idea, I would do it exactly oppositely. If you go to bed at 23:59 and wake up at 00:00, you have slept just a single minute. You better set the bed time to 00:00 and the wake time at 23:59 - like that all the day would be monitored for sleeping.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Touché and well spotted!