*grin*
It's very simple.
West-Europe is more eastern than North-America.
So West-Europe is "ahead" of North-America.
If you travel along with the sun -east to west- you "gain" time, if you go fast enough.
Remember "around the world in 80 days"?
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Carrie, when you come to Europe. You'll "loose" time. Becouse it's later in Europe + you have to ad the time you spend travelling. You'll have to set your watch forward.
You'll move foreward in time without aging. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> On the other hand... you "loose" those houres.
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example:
Let's say you leave 4am your time. At that same time it's 11am in England and Ireland. To keep it easy let's asume your trip takes 4 houres. So you arive in Ireland at 3pm local time. Where you live it's 8am at that time.
So eventhough you travelled only 4 houres you moved (3pm - 8am)7 houres forward. 3houres of your life have just "disapeared".
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