----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:51 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re:
International Time Zone Outtasynchronicities
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
"Craig" <trehala@y...>
wrote:
>
Is the greatest time difference in neighbouring time zones
between
> Afghanistan and China (i.e., 3.5 hours)?
spectacular discovery
craig
& i dont think such an extremity is even remotely approached
anywhere in the normal world
yet larger changes occur in
antarctica
& especially
traveling between the antarctic peninsula
& the australian
permanent base on the budd coast at casey via the
south pole
you would actually not even have to change your watch at
all
yikes
since you would move backward or forward exactly 12
hours
> In my travels throughout Arctic Norway, Finland and Russia,
I
got a
> great kick out of the fact that each country is in a
different time
> zone. Although I was travelling in a relatively small
geographic
> area, I had to adjust my watch constantly, or else I might
miss
the
> infrequent (twice-a-week) winter-schedule buses!
>
> Craig
something funny here too
you dont mean you were
actually biking around the arctic in the
winter
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