So, I left Vancouver at 1 pm (-ish) and soon after our flight, we had crossed the International Date Line (http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/dateline.htm), leaving the 5th behind and leapfrogging into the following day. It was 4:30 pm when I arrived in Tokyo and we were leaving for the next flight at 6:30 pm. Our arrival was slated for 11:15 pm in Bangkok after a 7 hour and some minutes flight. Do the math.
I lost two hours flying into Tokyo and by flying to Bangkok, the same two hours re-appeared! Just think how discombobulating it would be to keep going... the same hours lost by crossing the international date line would re-appear (not to mention the carbon karma you'd cost yourself, but that is for another post:).
Time and time zones are fascinating. Usually when you fly, you just lose time or gain time. Never have I lost and gained the SAME time on the same trip!
Again, I had not slept for a good long time when all of this occurred to me... although it is still pretty cool:)
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