I hate admitting this. I’m 46, educated and logical, but I don’t TRULY understand how time zones work – when I flew to America from the UK the flight was 8 hours, but when I landed, only 2 hours had elapsed in local time but it’s the same day. Where does the time go? Does it sort of get saved up at the international date line and cancelled or something? I hate admitting I don’t really understand this.
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The convention of talking about “time gained” and “time lost” is misleading. Time zones are just a convention for setting clocks. If your flight left the UK at noon and you called a friend in America prior to your flight, he’d say that his time is 6am. And if, when you arrived, you called your friend back in the UK, he’d say it was 8pm even though the time in America is 2pm.
ALL of you agree that your flight took 8 hours (ie you neither gained nor lost time). It is simply that you all don’t agree what time it is at any moment.
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