Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 16:58
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Oden Antarctic Expedition 08

Is there a time difference where you are compared to here in New York?

 

Thanks, Jeff

Andy

Sun, 12/07/2008 - 15:10

Jeff Peneston

Andy,
You are just full of the best questions!  I will clarify this in today’s journal too.The short answer is that there should be a new time zone about every 15? of longitude and so, when we started out in Montevideo we were 3 hours ahead of Eastern Time.  However, the ship can pick any time it wants to and since we have been traveling SW for over a week we are now probably an hour behind you.  Once we reach the ice continent we will continue to go west around Antarctica and we will be in a new time zone every few days.   Since changing the clocks that often would be very inconvenient for the folks on the ship and since we are going to have 24 hours of daylight anyway, the ship has fixed our ship time at 2 hours ahead of Eastern time.  We will keep our clocks that way for a few more weeks and then we will have one huge time/date change day as we switch to McMurdo/New Zealand time.  That day we will change the clocks 16 hours at once!  
For now, as an example, since I wanted to call Jan at 10pm your time last night, I needed to stay up until midnight ship time.  
Take care, and those questions coming!
Jeff