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Old May 19, 2011 | 1:13 pm
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ProMedEd
Formerly known as EWR-ProMedEd
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Yes, they are. Thanks for that wonderful bit of insight. @:-)

And if you look at the actual departure and arrival times in the schedule you'll see that they are correct. The problem is that somewhere along the way the system is doing a calculation of arrival minus departure to try to get a duration. And it really only works if those times are first converted to something like UTC to make sure that time zone changes are accounted for. And that didn't work. So despite the fact that the actual listed arrival/departure times are correct the time zone calculation failed and you get the wonky information displayed.
So, 1 hr 53 mn outbound and 1 hr 27 mn return? What variables account for the longer outbound trip:

A) Slow Q400 and fast ERJ
B) Headwind outbound and tailwind return
C) Outbound EWR congestion
D) Some of the above (please specify)
E) All of the above

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