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What is supposed to happen when you take a flight at 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 and land before 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 (local time)? Do you get the alarm twice?
by chrisbolt 15y ago
What is supposed to happen when you take a flight at 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 and land before 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 (local time)? Do you get the alarm twice?
- stoney 15y agoI think that's pretty hard to do in these post-concord days? Though if you lived close to a time zone border it could be a problem. There are towns straddling the Queensland-New South Wales border in Australia. There is a one hour time difference between the states for half of the year (NSW does daylight saving, QLD does not). I've always wondered how local businesses deal with that.
- neckbeard 15y agoIt is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America). And I've even lost a birthday flying back in the other direction. Great scheduling, that.
- masklinn 15y ago> It is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America). Or use a fast plane going west (Concorde used to take ~3h for London to NYC, and NYC is on UTC-5, so passengers on Concorde would arrive "2h before they left").
- Archaeum 15y agoI think that would be the expectation of most non-engineers, assuming they set the new time zone before arriving and if they even considered edge cases like that. It's also how most alarms work, whether mechanical or digital.