061128 – Tuesday – Aotearoa – about those dates?

If you’ll notice, the title indicates I wrote this on 061128 (Tuesday, November 28th, 2006) but just under my date, it indicates that the post was actually created on the 27th of November. Why?

The BlueHost server that this blog runs on is physically in Utah in the United States but I’m writing these posts from New Zealand. And New Zealand is on the other side of the International Date Line so when it is noon on Monday in Utah (mountain time) on the November 27th, it is also 8 Am here in New Zealand on Tuesday, the 28th of November.  Got that?   Yup, I find it confusing as well.

Flying here from the States, you take off on the 14th and you land on the 16th and there never was, so far as you are concerned, a 15th.  Ya sure, ya betcha! as they say in Ballard and Minnesota.

So, about the dates?  Just don’t worry about and you’ll feel better.

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