Daylight savings?
Jan 17, 2019, 3:26 pm
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Daylight savings?
Flying from Seattle to charlotte. Flight leaves march 9 @ 930pm and arrives in Charlotte at 619am. Have a 1 hour layover. Flight from Charlotte to Roanoke leaves at 724am
is daylight savings time going to make me miss my connecting flight?
is daylight savings time going to make me miss my connecting flight?
Jan 17, 2019, 3:43 pm
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The hour is lost during the overnight flight. There is a four hour time change, so the plane will depart at 21:30 PST and land at 06:19 EDT. No worries about the connection. Yet another reason to get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
Jan 17, 2019, 3:52 pm
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You will arrive as scheduled shortly after 6am.
Jan 18, 2019, 12:12 pm
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I've had a number of flight times changed after booking because they were loaded in the system without accounting for daylight saving changes (i.e. when I booked a flight it said depart 3pm arrive 8pm and changed to be either depart 3pm arrive 7pm or 9pm (depending on time of year and destinations). This usually happened when one end was doing daylight and the other was not (e.g. the UK and Canada change their daylight savings on different weekends) and I would hope for a domestic itinerary they are more clued in. So while the OP might be totally fine, as the time is local allowing for daylight savings, not all airlines get this right all the time, so a phone call to double check with the airline wouldn't be a bad idea.
Jan 18, 2019, 12:54 pm
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If an airline had completely screwed this up in the past - that is, forgotten about it until the day of travel - it would have *had* to become a big mainstream news story and a huge thread on Flyertalk. If AA did this, Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte, Phoenix, and Philly would be full of angry people and lots of local news cameras.
This leads me to believe that they tend to get it right.
Seattle to Charlotte is typically scheduled as approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. 9:30PM PST to 2:15AM PST, which is 5:15 EST, which is 6:15 EDT. So your schedule is published correctly as is.
This leads me to believe that they tend to get it right.
Seattle to Charlotte is typically scheduled as approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. 9:30PM PST to 2:15AM PST, which is 5:15 EST, which is 6:15 EDT. So your schedule is published correctly as is.
Jan 19, 2019, 12:47 am
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It's idiotic. Playing with the clock to make the sun set an hour later only makes the sun rise an hour later. It doesn't create more daylight.
The only way to create more daylight in the summer is to move to to a higher latitude. In the winter, move to the southern hemisphere (the further south, the better).
The only way to create more daylight in the summer is to move to to a higher latitude. In the winter, move to the southern hemisphere (the further south, the better).
Jan 19, 2019, 12:23 pm
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The only way to create more daylight in the summer is to move to to a higher latitude. In the winter, move to the southern hemisphere (the further south, the better).
Jan 19, 2019, 5:04 pm
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Jan 19, 2019, 6:27 pm
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It's idiotic. Playing with the clock to make the sun set an hour later only makes the sun rise an hour later. It doesn't create more daylight.
The only way to create more daylight in the summer is to move to to a higher latitude. In the winter, move to the southern hemisphere (the further south, the better).
The only way to create more daylight in the summer is to move to to a higher latitude. In the winter, move to the southern hemisphere (the further south, the better).
I personally think it’s great - this is as someone who is up at 4am most days. Early mornings are wasted daylight.
Jan 23, 2019, 1:39 pm
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I guess the alternative would be to abandon DST and move major U.S. stock market trading 1 hour earlier. That would gradually force what we think of as "the business day" an hour earlier. Cities with public transit would quickly shift their schedules. And then schools, retail, etc. would shift - and finally entertainment, television prime time, etc. Over time, what we think of as normal bedtime and wake-up time would change. For those who like to work out early in the morning, 4AM-5AM would no longer be "the hour of the ultramarathoner." Mere marathoners would be on the road at that time. 
Rural areas would change less, as they're going to move with the sun and seasons no matter what time we call it.
Or we could just fiddle with the clocks twice a year. That mostly gets the job done, but damn if I don't absolutely hate winter...
Rural areas would change less, as they're going to move with the sun and seasons no matter what time we call it.
Or we could just fiddle with the clocks twice a year. That mostly gets the job done, but damn if I don't absolutely hate winter...
Jan 25, 2019, 9:24 am
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I guess the alternative would be to abandon DST and move major U.S. stock market trading 1 hour earlier. That would gradually force what we think of as "the business day" an hour earlier. Cities with public transit would quickly shift their schedules. And then schools, retail, etc. would shift - and finally entertainment, television prime time, etc. Over time, what we think of as normal bedtime and wake-up time would change. For those who like to work out early in the morning, 4AM-5AM would no longer be "the hour of the ultramarathoner." Mere marathoners would be on the road at that time.
Rural areas would change less, as they're going to move with the sun and seasons no matter what time we call it.
Or we could just fiddle with the clocks twice a year. That mostly gets the job done, but damn if I don't absolutely hate winter...
Rural areas would change less, as they're going to move with the sun and seasons no matter what time we call it.
Or we could just fiddle with the clocks twice a year. That mostly gets the job done, but damn if I don't absolutely hate winter...
I've advocated for years to split the difference - advance all time zones by 30 minutes and be done with it. It's kind of arbitrary that GMT has "noon" when the sun is directly overhead; let's just set GMT as having "noon" when the sun is 30 minutes before being directly overhead, and voila! We have a consistent time year-round that shifts light by 30 minutes into the afternoon/evening hours.
Northern cities can handle a 30-minute shift in winter.
Jan 25, 2019, 9:41 am
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Jan 25, 2019, 11:51 am
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