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ivybgreenflower) wrote2009-04-12 12:02 am
ivybgreenflower) wrote2009-04-12 12:02 am
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Stupid question
Something tells me this should be easier to figure out than it is, but math is just not something that makes sense to me. I was setting the table for six one holiday last year, and took three forks, and thought, oh, I need two more. Naturally, I ended up one short. I was thinking "3x2=6", not "3+3=6". And didn't realize the flaw in this thinking until I ran out of forks and sat and thought about it for awhile, so sure was I that I had taken enough from the drawer. So, I have a question about time differences.
So, if you fly to another country- let's say somewhere in Europe- and the flight takes six hours, and there's a five hour time difference, do you arrive eleven hours later? Is that how it works?
This is for my novel, by the way. I need Main Character to go to Europe, and I need her to arrive in the evening, some time after the sun sets, for Plot Reasons, so I need to know when I should have her leaving from here (East Coast of America, obviously). Also, there is no DST as my novel is set in the future, which also is the reason for the shortened flying time. I was thinking, if she left at 10 AM she'd end up there at 8 PM? That doesn't seem right, but I did the math backwards (thinking 8 PM was a good arrival time) so I might have done something wrong.
I often feel like I got a fairly standard education in English, but apparently every math teacher I've had since Kindergarten has been a moron. The one time I visited a college guidance lady and told her there was a ten point difference in my ACT scores between the one for English and the one for Math (eleven points if we go from the essay/composition/whatever one to Math) the look she gave me was... well, she probably thinks I'm insane.
So, anybody know?
-12:11 AM
So, if you fly to another country- let's say somewhere in Europe- and the flight takes six hours, and there's a five hour time difference, do you arrive eleven hours later? Is that how it works?
This is for my novel, by the way. I need Main Character to go to Europe, and I need her to arrive in the evening, some time after the sun sets, for Plot Reasons, so I need to know when I should have her leaving from here (East Coast of America, obviously). Also, there is no DST as my novel is set in the future, which also is the reason for the shortened flying time. I was thinking, if she left at 10 AM she'd end up there at 8 PM? That doesn't seem right, but I did the math backwards (thinking 8 PM was a good arrival time) so I might have done something wrong.
I often feel like I got a fairly standard education in English, but apparently every math teacher I've had since Kindergarten has been a moron. The one time I visited a college guidance lady and told her there was a ten point difference in my ACT scores between the one for English and the one for Math (eleven points if we go from the essay/composition/whatever one to Math) the look she gave me was... well, she probably thinks I'm insane.
So, anybody know?
-12:11 AM
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I'm not actually sure how that works.
I left Newark at 11:00pm, and I arrived in Madrid at 12:00PM the next day.
I believe there is a 6 hour time difference.
So...I think I arrived 13 hours after I took off.
And I think that flight was only 7 hours.
Sooooooooo...8PM seems like a reasonable time.
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