Technology That Changed Air Travel

Re:Technology That Changed Air Travel by netsharc on Sunday December 09, 2018 @08:56PM (#18644607)

Cool article, but the info about the timezones don't make sense. You say SFO/T-7 means SFO is 7 hours behind GMT, and LHR is at GMT¥8 meaning it's 8 hours ahead of SFO.. but if LHR is at GMT and SFO is 7 hours behind GMT, how can LHR be 8 hours ahead of SFO? That doesn't add up, and honestly it made me wonder if you were just making up your own interpretation of the info...

Also, looking up the Tango timezone in maps shows me it's not Pacific Standard Time.

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Re:Technology That Changed Air Travel by refrigerator on Sunday December 09, 2018 @09:33PM (#18644774)

Hi — sorry, looks like I messed up the timezone details. In the case of daylight savings time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time), SFO is 7 hours away from GMT. But LHR is still 8 timezones away from SFO. You're right that it shouldn't read `LHR/GMT`, but `LHR/BST`.

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Re:Technology That Changed Air Travel by netsharc on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:49AM (#18646019)

Then the flight date needs to be adjusted too, December 12 is not during DST for both of those locations.

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