How is this possible?

Question

ok this summer me and my family are going on a tour of europe. the tour starts in london and also ends there. so when i was looking for flights, i found something very confusing.

in http://www.travelation.com i entered the following information:

- its a roundtrip flight

- starts from EWR (newark, NJ) and ends in london's heathrow airport

- the departure date is july 10, 2008 and the return date is july 26, 2008

- its nonstop

so when i clicked search, on the first flight, there was something confusing in the return portion:

- the duration of the return flight is 7 hours and 40 minutes

- it leaves from heathrow at 8:25 PM

- it arrives at newark at 11:05 PM, ON THE SAME DAY

how is that possible? im pretty sure that it doesnt take 2 hours to cross the atlantic, so is the information on the site wrong or is there some kind of new fast plane that i dont know about?

Answer 1

Time zone my dear.

Answer 2

Arival and departure times are usually given for the local time.

Answer 3

All that sounds like quantum physics to me but without doing the math or thinking in any way, my first guess would be something to do with flying east opposed to west and time zones and other confusing junk.

Answer 4

Wow

Answer 5

it is correct on the web site you cross different time zones you leave england time and arrive nj time so its actually nearly 8 hours

Answer 6

LOL....just women could ask such a question=).