Originally Posted by
Bruin1K
Don't know if you mean bad math on my part or UA but no matter what the times are which are just labels, if I'm up in the air 10 hours, then I'm up in the air 10 hours!!
Daylight savings doesn't make the distance shorter so you would get there faster. You are still gonna be up in the air 10 hours, but with the daylight savings changes the destination (arrival) time will be different.
That would be what I would tell my students (as a "math" professor ��)
Referring to UA's bad math in reporting flight duration around day lights savings change periods. The bad math is sometimes reporting the time duration as 9:55 vs other times reporting 10:55 as you reported. The two different time durations is the problem. Perhaps reviewing the other example in this thread with make the point clearer.