Flight time change

[madtownguy 164]

Ok I'm confused because when I fly from California to Florida I lost time, so a 4 hour flight eats up about 8 hours because of the time zones. But when I'm booking this first lag of the Manila to LAX trip it says it takes off at 10pm and gets here at 8pm, it makes no reference to a loss of a day. Am I missing something, shouldn't it be 8 PM the next day not the day the flight takes off? I don't know why this has got me, wait maybe the 24 hour spot is somewhere in the ocean because if it's 11am here in Florida it's 7am in CA but it's 11PM in Philippines all the same day. I feel like I might be on my way to developing a time traveling machine in figuring this out.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Phils is ahead of the USA so flying from Manila is going "back in time". Leaving at 10PM from Manila the flight arrives the same day two hours earlier.

You central zone or east? I know from here (AZ time) there is 15 hours difference, its always the opposite end of the day there

Edited April 2, 2013 by Hank_

[madtownguy 164]

Yeah Hank I understand that, they are about 12 hours ahead of me. But here's what is confusing me. When I fly the same direction from LAX to Orlando it goes the opposite even though that's the same direction coming from Philippines. Essentially I'm also going back in time when I go to California from Florida, so that is what I'm confused with. The 24 hour change point must happen right in the ocean somewhere, that is all I can think of.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Well actually you have it backwards... sort of, flying from Manila to LAX is sort of coming in the back door as the "time" is from the other direction. Make sense? Manila is in the FAR EAST (not west).

Edited April 2, 2013 by Hank_

[erynaught 43]

Yeah, when traveling MNL to USA you're crossing the International Date Line, so you must subtract 24hours from your flight time in order to figure your arrival time.

[erynaught 43]

Yeah, when traveling MNL to USA you're crossing the International Date Line, so you must subtract 24hours from your flight time in order to figure your arrival time.

Oops ... not exactly from the 'flight time' ... this would be incorrect (sorry) ... but when traveling Eastbound across the International Date Line you subtract a day in order to arrive at the correct date/time and when traveling Westbound you add a day.

Daylight Savings Time can muck things a bit, so be aware of this and whether both countries use DST and/or according to the same schedule.

Edited April 2, 2013 by erynaught

[Don and Venus 2]

Once travelling from Guam to Honalulu I landed in HI before the time I departed Guam and actually went back in time.

[Grant PDX 183]

Just FYI, time it right and have your fiancée send you the lottery ticket numbers

Clock time is meaningless when flying, because of time zones and the international date line. Figure out your time at home when you take off and your time at home when you land. As you know, your significant other is 12-16 hours ahead of you at any given time... but that doesn't mean it's tomorrow here, just there....there's the time difference. As you fly and cross the date line, you get back in a time more relative to your home (or vice versa flying there). Clock time is meaningless when crossing time zones.

I frequently have to travel between time zones to areas less than 50 miles apart. One town has sunrise and sunset nearly an hour earlier than the other town according to the clock, but both happen at nearly the same time in real time. I can drive from the eastern town and get to the western town and arrive before I left, according to the clock, but real time doesn't change. If I stand at the right spot I can hop from leg to leg and gain and lose hours over and over again... it's fun, but it won't help me win the lottery

[Tahoma 2,292]

The dates and times on your flight itinerary are always shown in local time. For example, for a flight from California to Florida, the date and time for your California departure will be shown in Pacific Coast time, and date and time of your Florida arrival will be shown in East Coast time.

And yes, the international date line is out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe it would be easier for you if you used GMT.

[madtownguy 164]

Ok got it figured out now. I figured that line had to be out there somewhere, I call all over the US so I understand time zones it's just weird cuz I was thinking in terms of direction, one direction always loses and one always gains. But I guess I never thought about a point where everything starts over again. Tickets are all booked, now hopefully that pesky visa will have the correct name on it. I just found out the day I fly back in with my fiance I have to fly out for training for 2 days. My fiance isn't going to be too happy with me, I told her that only happens once every other year which is normally true but I guess there are always exceptions to that rule.