Thread: future, past or present?

i live in the uk. so if i go to the usa will i be there in the future past or present? the usa times are behind the uk and there's also the time it gets their by plane.

rest assured you will be in the present wen you land in u.s.
u.s time being behind u.k is a mere convention.

Present. In the sense of Tim Zones, which are man made to account for a difference in day-time, night-time, and activities of people (business, travel, etc) depending on your relative location on Earth; just because it is 6:30pm GMT now in Greenwich, UK and 1:30pm EST here in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA does not mean I am living in your past and you are living in my future. We can call up each other right now and we're talking to each other in the present. This is why some governments, agencies, and particularly the military adopt a single time reference, such as GMT (greenwich mean time, zulu time, UTC, etc) so there is no confusion.

So if you leave London at 12 noon and arrive in New york 8 hours later, then technically your flight only took 2 hours. So you could say that you have arrived in the future unrealized.

So if you leave London at 12 noon and arrive in New york 8 hours later, then technically your flight only took 2 hours. So you could say that you have arrived in the future unrealized.