(Pic) I'm being absolutely stupid please help me with this time zone/flight question

[contrarymary96]

Do I get to my destination at 08:50 on the 30th June or at 08:50 on 1st July?

Flight is about 10 hours long from North America to the UK.

I don't know what's wrong with me, I can't figure it out and I've given up.

I think the answer is 08:30 on 30th!? Help lol!

1st July you land back

Hi, no it will be 08.50 on 1st July, we are five hours ahead so it will land 15 hours after take off so the next day.

You’d arrive the next day on 1st because UK is ahead of North America

the 1st

You are leaving the States at teatime so it is already late evening on the 30th in the UK when you take off.

You land back in the UK on the morning the day after you leave the US in the evening. So what date is your departure?

It’s not helped by that phrase “ flying in” which seems to suggest the arrival date. As others have said it will be the day after your departure date.

Yeh US is behind us. So the Oscars on the west coast of US are in the evening, but if you watch them live it's like, 2am the next day in the UK. The east coast (NYC etc) is not so far behind.

I used to have a job where I had to ring the US and if it was west coast it was almost impossible in office hours. I would call at 6.30pm and get the cleaner lol - in the early morning there. East coast was easier but even then it had to be in the afternoon UK time, would be the morning there.

So you leave later afternoon in 30 June, fly for 10 hours and arrive on the morning of 1 July,

The way to work it out is that you have to stay up late at night to speak to Americans.

When it's 17:35 in new york it is 23:35 in the UK.
That makes it easier to see that you will be landing on 1st July.

Perhaps not the point, but, OP, it's really easy to work out which flight you're referring to based on the information you've given - if you have concerns about people knowing which flight it is (given that you blanked out the airports and the flight number), maybe get the thread deleted?
But yes, you will arrive after you take off, so 8:50am on the 1st.

No, it will land 10 hours and 15 minutes after takeoff (assuming it's on time). The OP will "lose" five hours, but that doesn't make it a 15-hour flight.

Given the flight length, OP is likely coming from the West coast of the US and losing eight hours. Bit, yes, doesn’t change the flight length.

Thank you! So glad I asked.

Yes the 'flying in' part really threw me.

I used to have a job where I had to ring the US and if it was west coast it was almost impossible in office hours. I would call at 6.30pm and get the cleaner lol - in the early morning there

The rest of my team is in calaifornia, it's not quite that bad, 6:30pm here is 10:30 am on the west coast. Except when we get an hour more of less adrift due to different daylight savings dates...it's weirdly hard to work out who needs to be an hour earlier or later for meetings.

Ah yes, that's right.

Seems that they are using "Flying out" and "Flying in" to demark your outbound versus inbound flights.

I agree it is 1 July.

If you find your flight on sky scanner or Expedia it should be shown as "+1 day".

Time is measured from Greenwich (GMT). So everything East (Europe, Russia, Australia) is ahead and everything West (US, South/Central America to Hawaii) is behind us. So if you fly form Tokyo to London you are losing time (+9 to zero) whereas you fly from NY to London you are gaining time as the hours are moving up from -5 to zero (GMT).
if you cross the International Date Line (mid Pacific) it then reverses. As one side is +12 (going East) the other is -12 so if I flew from London to the Date Line I would gain 12hours eg 10am > 10pm (plus flying time) and as soon I cross the date line I am now 12 hours behind London (10pm the previous evening). So flying London to NZ you gain 11 hours. but if you plane kept flying towards London you would start to be behing GMT as soon as you cross the Date Line

Confusingly Cape Town is 1 hour ahead of London despite being 1000s miles South. Its to do with lines of Longitude

You'll usually see time zones expressed in terms of UTC rather than GMT nowadays of course. (These initials are a rather charming international compromise between the anglophone Coordinated Universal Time and the French Temps Universel Coordonné, in case anyone has ever wondered wtf they stand for but not got around to googling).