Time to Make a Time Decision
In case you’re not aware, I will be traveling next week. Now, is this an issue? After all, I traveled to Iowa back in August and there was no problem. Correct, there wasn’t, but only because Iowa is still in the Central Time Zone. Vegas, on the other hand, is in the Pacific Time Zone, so I need to establish a way to continue making posts that keep my streak alive. The easy way is just to make sure I make posts by midnight Central Time, and all is good. Right?
Where this becomes more complicated is when traveling farther away from Dallas, say to Australia as an example. There I would only need to post by about 6:00 PM the following day in order to get in a post by midnight (e.g. Sunday’s post could be made by me at 5:55 PM on Monday). Fortunately because of the way time zones work, the only locales where this ends up being an issue are locations west of Dallas before crossing the International Date Line (so U.S. West Coast and Hawaii primarily).
When starting off this post, I actually didn’t think this was the way I was going to go. Reanalyzing my other choice (changing the time zone to reflect where I’m posting from), however, introduces another oddity. When traveling to Australia, an entire day of “local time” is lost (or gained) because of flight time and crossing the IDT (e.g. a Friday flight departing from Dallas arrives in Sydney on Sunday; the return flight from Sydney on a Sunday arrives back at Dallas only about 4 hours or so later that same day). Under this method, I basically couldn’t make a Saturday post on the way there even though I could very easily get in a post on Saturday by just making a post by 6:00 Sunday evening.
Well, I guess I’ve answered that question. On lengthier travels it might be worth changing the time zone setting, but I’m pretty sure I can handle time zone changes on my own for vacations. Not only do I get to use this blog as a place to write down random thoughts, but it helps me problem solve also!!