Two Days in One Day

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When I was leaving Japan at 6:00 pm at August 2006, but I am not sure what's the date, but I know it was Sunday and the sun was leaving Japan toward west while I was on the flight toward east across the Pacific ocean. When I arrive America, I met the same sun and it was still Sunday in America so I got two days in one day.

Oddly, ne? I wonder if anyone had experienced two days in one day?
 
You crossed the Date Line. If you look at the globe, you will see the date line over the Pacific Ocean. You start the day at the Date line and go west. It is 24 hours around the globe. Japan was almost finished with sunday but USA is not finished with sunday.

Did you also noticed that it is much faster going from USA to Japan than it is from Japan to USA? The earth itself is moving east. If you fly east, you are trying to beat the earth. If you fly west, you get to Japan faster because you are going the opposite way of the earth's movement.

If you talk to somebody in Australia on IM on Sunday, your Aussie friend is talking to you on Monday at the same time.

If you left Quito, Ecuador (a city on the equator), South America at noon and you fly toward west at 1,041.6 miles per hour. It is still noon to you as you fly straight on the equator around the globe westward because you are following the sun.
 
Buffalo said:
You crossed the Date Line. If you look at the globe, you will see the date line over the Pacific Ocean. You start the day at the Date line and go west. It is 24 hours around the globe. Japan was almost finished with sunday but USA is not finished with sunday.

Did you also noticed that it is much faster going from USA to Japan than it is from Japan to USA? The earth itself is moving east. If you fly east, you are trying to beat the earth. If you fly west, you get to Japan faster because you are going the opposite way of the earth's movement.

If you talk to somebody in Australia on IM on Sunday, your Aussie friend is talking to you on Monday at the same time.

If you left Quito, Ecuador (a city on the equator), South America at noon and you fly toward west at 1,041.6 miles per hour. It is still noon to you as you fly straight on the equator around the globe westward because you are following the sun.
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Ohh that make sense! Thank you for explaining it very clearly :)

Dixie said:
Interesting facts. Also here is something that is neato that Ive seen before online:
World Time Map & Clock - Check Current Local Time Around the World
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Nice link, we can see where we can hop in other day in just one day while viewing this link :D
 
Same thing happened to me. I called my parents and said see you "today" (when it really was the next day). One time we arrived the day before we left. I cannot remember where we were leaving from - I'll call my Dad and ask him. ;)
 
seems we have already invented the time travel machine
 
Talking about Jet lag.... going back in time or going in the future.

Puyo.. you have experienced the time machine :giggle:
 
PuyoPiyo said:
When I was leaving Japan at 6:00 pm at August 2006, but I am not sure what's the date, but I know it was Sunday and the sun was leaving Japan toward west while I was on the flight toward east across the Pacific ocean. When I arrive America, I met the same sun and it was still Sunday in America so I got two days in one day.

Oddly, ne? I wonder if anyone had experienced two days in one day?
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:zzz: I felt that way this past week.
 
Yep been there done that twice. Left NZ on a friday morning and arrive in USA on friday morning and was like uhhh yikes. But returning back to NZ from USA in fact missed a whole day. Left USA on Tues and got to NZ on Thursday and was only in the air for 19 hours so i crossed the date line when nz was already a day ahead.
 
Sasha64 said:
Yep been there done that twice. Left NZ on a friday morning and arrive in USA on friday morning and was like uhhh yikes. But returning back to NZ from USA in fact missed a whole day. Left USA on Tues and got to NZ on Thursday and was only in the air for 19 hours so i crossed the date line when nz was already a day ahead.
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Wow, missed a day!
 
Yes I experienced it before.

To Australia 2 days later and back to Germany 2 days earlier... and Singapore - one day later and back to Germany one day earlier.

To America - 1/2 day back and back to Germany one day later.

Few or more hours earlier or later to different countries.
 
When I went to USA in 1999, I returned back to Australia and I missed one thursday, LOL :lol:
 
When I left New Zealand on Tuesday evening and arrived in USA on Tuesday morning and wait for couple of hours then another flight to Canada, arrived on Tuesday Night time.

As for returning back to New Zealand I missed one day.
 
Dixie said:
seems we have already invented the time travel machine
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LOL. Yeah, just one day either way. It would be nice if we can go 100 years or 1000 years, etc. Thanks for the link on time zones. I can use it to check the time in the city my friend is in to make sure I don't call at a bad time.

I also feel funny talking to someone in Australia as I feel I am a ghost of the past or I am talking to the ghost of the future.
 
Buffalo said:
LOL. Yeah, just one day either way. It would be nice if we can go 100 years or 1000 years, etc. Thanks for the link on time zones. I can use it to check the time in the city my friend is in to make sure I don't call at a bad time.

I also feel funny talking to someone in Australia as I feel I am a ghost of the past or I am talking to the ghost of the future.
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You're talking to the people of the 'future'
 
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