Distinguishing Time Zones in Major Situations Involving Commercial Airlines
Posted by HCN on Tuesday, December 30, 2014
It is very IMPORTANT for those of us that are following the
disappearance of the Flight 8501, as well as an important concept for
the future, which hopefully there will be no further of these types of
tragedies, that: THE DIFFERENT TIME ZONES CORRESPOND TO CHANGES IN CLOCK
READINGS BUT DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE AMOUNT
OF HOURS THAT ELAPSED AFTER THE EVENT. GETTING THE TWO CONFUSED might
not facilitate readers' and news watchers abilities to assist upon their desire to do so.
If an airplane disappeared when it was 5:30am Saturday morning in Indonesia, here in the United States, our clock readings for here were not 5:30am. In an instance where 2 hours later, a news update about anything, a storm in the region to a business merger, in the Asian island region, it is not 7:30am in the U.S.
Possibly what could occur, is when story writers, bloggers, and startup media shows, 'piggyback' off of other news stories, and FAIL TO CRYSTALLIZE the exact details about time in consideration of the time zone differences, the timeline of events in the stories could begin to get mixed up.
With the positive of a wealth of information being exchanged quickly through communication mediums like Internet and smartphone device sharing, comes a responsibility not to allow a negative to emerge of mixing up event timelines when reporting, especially when referring to past and updates in the same story.
Just in case further detailed to understand the concepts described above are needed for clarity, this refers to the time stamp that is adjacent or near an article byline. If a newswriter writes an article when it is 8am on Monday for example in his or her hometown, about an event that happened at 7am on Monday in Asia or Europe, or Africa, the event did not occur 1 hour later, the event that occurred across the Atlantic might have been at night their time.
If an airplane disappeared when it was 5:30am Saturday morning in Indonesia, here in the United States, our clock readings for here were not 5:30am. In an instance where 2 hours later, a news update about anything, a storm in the region to a business merger, in the Asian island region, it is not 7:30am in the U.S.
Possibly what could occur, is when story writers, bloggers, and startup media shows, 'piggyback' off of other news stories, and FAIL TO CRYSTALLIZE the exact details about time in consideration of the time zone differences, the timeline of events in the stories could begin to get mixed up.
With the positive of a wealth of information being exchanged quickly through communication mediums like Internet and smartphone device sharing, comes a responsibility not to allow a negative to emerge of mixing up event timelines when reporting, especially when referring to past and updates in the same story.
Just in case further detailed to understand the concepts described above are needed for clarity, this refers to the time stamp that is adjacent or near an article byline. If a newswriter writes an article when it is 8am on Monday for example in his or her hometown, about an event that happened at 7am on Monday in Asia or Europe, or Africa, the event did not occur 1 hour later, the event that occurred across the Atlantic might have been at night their time.
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