Is England a day ahead or a day behind of America?

England is forever stuck in a scenic past where beautiful people sip expensive cocktails while fighting ennui.

. . . in Hawaii you are a day behind Japan. It is Sunday already in Japan.

England is 6 hours ahead of the East Coast of the USA.

According to timezones the east coast is 5 hours behind London or London is 5 hours ahead of New York City. Might have something to do with Daylight Savings Time

^^ Yes, it varies an hour more or less at times.

Let’s see:
I fly from SEA on August 6th at 3:50 pm.
I land in LHR on August 7th at 09:15 am.
Flight time: 9 hour 15 minutes.
Looks like London is 8 hours ahead of Seattle.

^^ Yes, the East coast is 3 hours ahead of the West coast so 8 hours makes sense.

Probably the most technical answer us to say America is behind, because the world is plus or minus GMT time. GMT is the world standard. You might also know the terms UTC time and ZULU time, but anyway, the US is behind that time.

Or, if you are standing in America you could think of it as the UK is ahead of America, you can think of it as relative to wherever you are.

I think you are confusing the Greenwich Meridian with the International Date Line

@LostInParadise No, I’m not confusing it. Every time zone in the world is plus or minus UTC Time.

Tokyo is currently +9, Tokyo is across the dateline from the US. US east coast is – 4 hours currently. UK is +1 hours right now for the summer. Time is always stated plus or minus UTC/GMT or pilots and military will often call it Zulu time. It’s easy to figure out the hours traveled by plane if you stay in one time, since you are crossing time zones. There are more reasons than that for pilots to use Zulu.

Here is a website for time. Pretty much any website will show time in regards to GMT, never the international date line. I looked up a couple cities same website. NY: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/usa/new-york

London (which will go back to GMT when the time shifts again for daylight savings) https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/uk/london

Tokyo: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/japan/tokyo

It says right on your link that UTC is used for time. The International Date Line (IDL) is located at about 180° east (or west). It is halfway around the world from the prime meridian (0° longitude), the reference point of time zones, which runs through Greenwich, UK.

But, maybe you mean something that I’m not understanding.

I think RDG was referring to a place where you go from one day to the next. That would be the IDL. Traveling east to west you move 24 hours to the next day as you cross the line,

The GMT is convenient because there is no daylight saving time. I wrote computer programs where it was necessary to keep track of time lapse between two events. Using GMT was a simple way of avoiding having to keep track of daylight saving time.

@LostIn Paradise Oh, you know, I think you ARE correct. I really didn’t read the Q well; I misinterpreted the question, just going too fast I guess. I twisted it in my head for some reason.

Several light years behind.