Traveling in Time

We had the longest day:


We left Glasgow at 10.20 GMT and travelled for 7 hours, but on touchdown into Philadelphia only 2.5 hours had gone by.

At 16.00 Eastern timezone we travelled for a further 5.5 hours and touchdown in Los Angeles, but only 3 hours have been put on the clock.

We got up at 06.45 and when we got to our beds that night our body clocks were telling us it was 03.00 the next day, but the world was telling us it was still only early evening.

We actually traveled back in time.

We had the shortest night, in the middle of another long day:

We left Los Angeles at 08.20 Pacific standard time and traveled for 5 hours.

When we touched down we had missed lunch and jumped forward to teatime.

We flew out of Philadelphia at 18.50 Eastern time, spent 7 hours in the air and on landing in Glasgow it was the next day already.

06.55 is painful enough but more so when you only been given 3 hours of night before it.

I still can't quite picture it in my head. I have to get the airline's itinerary out for it to make sense again, a bit like when you have to draw a diagram to explain an aerial viewpoint.

Even now, as a family, we still tend to argue about the facts....

Of course we are all time travelers, every day.