>>>Here now and for the next 49 or so hours somewhere or other.

> Somewhere on earth (probably where Russell lives) it becomes May 4th 
> before
> it does so in any other time zone. So, it's May 4th for Russell - 
> but not
> for all the other time zones yet. For this discussion assume that 
> there are
> only 24 distinct time zones each 1 hour apart. So, 1 hour later it 
> becomes
> May 4th in the next time zone. Now it is May 4th in 2 time zones... 
> and so
> on. So each hour another time zone is added to the ones that have a 
> current
> date of "May 4th". After the first time zone has had it's 24 hours 
> of May
> 4th the "last time zone still has another 23 hours of May 4th to go. 
> Hence
> the "for the next 49 or so hours somewhere or other". (I think it 
> might
> really be "the next 47 or so", but I'm not going to bother figuring 
> it out)

Good explanation.
When we have daylight saving in NZ each day lasts 49 hours or 2 + 1/24 
earth rotation. When we don't have daylight saving it's 48 hours. 
Tonga cheat and place themselves across the boundary in order to get 
Y2K benefits. If THEY had daylighty savings then each day would last 
50 hours :-)

> ... Ok, whatever, it's Star Wars.

That too :-)



        RM 

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