One step makes a 24 hours difference!

Flying to Brazil last week, I couldn’t sleep, as I have questioned myself: what if I flew with the same speed as the time goes – meaning what if it took me 1 hour to get to the next time zone, e.g. flying from Copenhagen till London, and the time difference is 1 hour. When it will be the same time. Correct. And so it will go on – meaning you e.g. can have New Years many times, if you are able to fly from the time zone which just had New Years, going to the next time zone. Yes – this is correct, as you can see this in TV, where you can see people having New Years at different times, all depending on their time zone, and if you fly fast enough, you can have many New Years – maybe not much time in each place, as you would have to hurry to next New Year, but it would work out:-)

Anwyays, here is the question I put my selves – what if I kept flying from one time zone to the next, e.g. from Moscow - Tallin - Copenhagen - London etc., celebrating New Years having the same time at any arrival due to my speed – would it just continue? Of cause it would not, but I could not find the answer, as I kept telling myself, what I actually could fly like this, as I couldn’t find the argument, saying it’s not going to be New Years in the next time zone you arrive. What do you say?

I am not sure about the answer, but no one on my flight could tell me, but my conclusion is – no, you can only have max 24 New Years, and the reason is at one point going around the world, the date changes by one day (24 hours!) at one point in one second, and this must be at the other site of the world, which is probably between Kiritimati and Honolulu. SO it’s possible, wheatear its one a ship or on land, TAKING ONE STEP, CROSING THE TIME ZONE ON THE OTHER SITE OF THE WORLD, WILL CHANGE YOUR TIME WITH ONE DAY OR 24 HOURS! IN OTHER WORDS – ONE STEP CAN MAKE A 24 HOURS DIFFERENCE!.

Anyway, maybe it’s only me questions me with stuff like this, but this has what kept me awake :-)

/ Simon From