It’s an ambitious vision, but it’s technically possible.
Just yesterday morning — and every other morning this hebdomad , really — I woke up from a deep slumber with a nostalgic sense of doomsday and gloom . " Far are the day in which 7 am was really 8 am , " I mope to myself , tired . " It ’s almost as if daylight saving will never end . "
Except it totally is , and a quickGooglesearch prompted by one too many suspicious thought revealed that the close is nearer than I thought . On November 3 , the clock is officially run back , which intend — you guessed it — that , at least for one day , you ’ll be able-bodied to sleep one superfluous hour .
If the logistics of such a phenomenon are n’t crystal unclouded , here ’s how it work : At 2 am local time on Sunday , November 3 , the clock will go back one hour . That means that if my mathematics does n’t fail me , from 1:59 am , we ’ll go back to 1 am rather of 2 am . So far , so good .
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That got me thinking , however , that there must be some advantage to daylight save time besides gaining quietus . shortly , it penetrate : you may technically time travel by sheet .
If you plan it right , you may gain one special 60 minutes in your prefer terminus without hop on a faster plane . retrieve about it : If , say , you were to leave Los Angeles on Saturday , November 2 in the morning and managed to snag a crimson - oculus flight to New York City , you ’d be in the air when the time alteration in Los Angeles , and it ’ll already have transfer in NYC because the east coast is three hours ahead and the escape is rough five hours long . As a final result , you ’ll get to NYC one hour earlier than you normally would . So there ’s your destitute extra fourth dimension .
The same go for the other way around , though there are a few things to commemorate . If you were travel from NYC to Los Angeles , you ’d have to get a cerise optic , which is a rarer ( albeit existing ) happening for this route .
Once you do that , you must ensure the flight leaves deep enough for the caper to ferment . If the flight take off at midnight , it will land in Los Angeles about around 5 am New York meter ( usually , it would be 6 am , but remember the time change ! ) . In Los Angeles , that would typically be 3 am , but it will in reality be 2 am because the clock fall back one hour at 2 am .
You ’re good as long as you land in Los Angeles on or after 2 am local fourth dimension . And you ’ll fundamentally be journey back in time . Once you set ashore , the time wo n’t really be what the clock is signaling because the clock will have already fallen back one time of day . So , if you land at 3 am local fourth dimension , that would really be 4 am if the time did n’t change . Confusing , I know , but valid !
This time traveling trick is only doable when both root and destination participate in daylight saving time . Some place , such as many countries in South America , do n’t adopt daylight keep altogether , so you ca n’t utilize it when flying there . And , in most of Europe , daylight rescue time terminate on October 27 , so you may only use the same trick if you settle to fly there on November 3 .
And if you do n’t really finger like time - traveling , I get it . savor that extra hour of sleep and call it a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. — you deserve it .
