Planing ahead
by Lyle Seaman
in Error'd
on 2024-08-02
Yes, the title misspelling was an intentional attempt at punnery.
It's a compulsion, I'm sorry.
I might have advised
Adam R.
not to try to plan flights 4 years in advance, if asked. But he
didn't ask, and so he discovered this. I'll let Adam explain.
"I was looking at flights to a certain town in eastern Western Australia.
(I'm planning ahead for the July 2028 solar eclipse.) A
popular travel website informed me that this evening
flight across the border from Northern Territory was an
overnight flight. Yes, the time zones in Australia are
weird, with a 90-minute difference between WA and NT, but
a westbound flight that lands before it takes off should
not be an unexpected edge case. "