25 hour a day Cruising

Admit it, when you’re aboard your cruise ship it never seems like you have enough time to do everything you want. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.
Or is there?
Proving the old adage true, ‘you learn something new every day’, I found out something about cruising today that I'd never heard before.

If you book a cruise aboard the QM2 on a transatlantic cruise leaving Southampton into New York you will actually have 25hours in each day.
 What’s that you ask? Have Cunard re-written the rules of space and time? Well, no. Nothing quite so interesting I’m afraid.
As you probably all know, going from Southampton to New York you experience a six hour time difference from crossing the diffrent time zones and rather than tacking it on all in one go Cunard just spread it out over the space of the six days, giving every one onboard 25hours each day to enjoy their cruise. I’m not sure if there is already a name for this but from now on I shall be referring to it as ‘Cunard Time’. They have to do this because of the day/night cycle onboard. It's OK to have a six hour time difference on a plane, but when your getting up and going to sleep each night on a ship a six hour time difference just wouldn't make any sense.
Although I should point out, you do have to be careful with 'Cunard Time', it’s a tricky little bugger and if you’re sailing back from New York to Southampton on an eastbound crossing you’ll end up with only a 23hour day because of it.

So has anyone ever had any experience with this? Did you notice it much on your cruise and did it muck up the old biological clock? Did it feel like you had longer during the day? Or less on the westbound crossings?Let me know about your experiences here.

Strange but True