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stoney | 14 years ago

I 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.

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neckbeard|14 years ago

It 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|14 years 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").