{"id":263,"date":"2008-08-24T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-08-24T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T14:50:08","slug":"how-do-they-deal-with-time-zones-on-sea-cruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/how-do-they-deal-with-time-zones-on-sea-cruises\/","title":{"rendered":"How do they deal with Time Zones on sea cruises?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been traveling across a few time zones<\/a> recently and I’m suffering from a mild jet-lag as a consequence. This is a well known phenomena, when you’re changing time zones very quickly, with a help of an airplane. But how do you deal with all those strange time zones if you are in a middle of the ocean, like on a transatlantic<\/a> ocean cruise?\u00c2\u00a0Do they just\u00c2\u00a0arbitrarily\u00c2\u00a0decide when they pass a certain time zone, or do they actually keep track of these things?<\/p>\n

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I started searching around and soon I stumbled upon Tom Galli’s RedToeNail blog<\/a>, where he writes how they solved this problem in his cruise:<\/p>\n

These time zones at sea are interesting constructs. No one lives out here so what is the big deal. There is a six hour time difference between Miami and Tenerife and to smooth the time transition, the ship advances the clock one hour per day on six succeeding days. So we have 6 days of 23 clock hours in length. Time is really a weird phenomenon. Is it an element of nature or a construction of man? Einstein and Hawkins advocate the former while I remain uncertain. I nevertheless understand the importance of being on time. While a novice at the physics of time, I fully understand breakfast! That said; I must go and eat. Read full post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there you have it. They just speed up time when they’re approaching their destination, but overall ignore the whole concept of time zones while on the sea.<\/p>\n

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