With the arrival of daylight saving time in the USA this Sunday, Beijing will be 11 hours ahead of Boston; Bangkok 12 hours ahead.
Going to China, crossing the international dateline is boring. We take off from Chicago on March 14 and arrive in Beijing on March 15. Thankfully the flight is only about 14 hours long, but timezones make a bigger impression than the international dateline when going east to west. It is going west to east coming home that the impact of crossing the international dateline is more pronounced.
We take off from Bangkok about 7:00 AM on April 20 and start leaping ahead through time zones all day long. Somewhere over the Pacific we cross the international dateline. A few hours later, it is 7:00 AM on April 20 all over again.
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