• (nodebb)

    Hmm. Did I miss something, or are the names of the airports printed in 0pt?

    Oh, and this:

    accelerates at a constant speed

    makes my teeth itch. OK, sure, it's possible to accelerate at a constant speed, but only by going in circles.

  • (nodebb)

    OK. Goggle tells me that flight LA 7948 is from Miami to Boston. And that the flight is a bit more than three hours. So apart from the missing airport information, what's the WTF in the first one?

  • The Cynic Replier (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    10:40 - 7:15 is not 3h23min :D

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    I'm assuming the WTF is that if you look at the departure and arrival times (7:15-10:40), the difference between those is 3h25m, but the page lists the duration as 3h23m. This could maybe be explained by some hidden seconds fields and inconsistent rounding choices, but more likely it's just some dumb data error.

  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    Hmm. OK, that makes more sense. It's still difficult to see how exactly the rounding would make that happen that way. In that case, the constant-speed time dilation from 3h25 to 3h23 would be around 7% of the speed of light.

  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    It's an off-by-two error, we see those all the time. Right? Err....

  • Pag (unregistered)

    I think the scheduled arrival/departure time for a flight is always rounded to 5 minutes. You'll even see 3 flights scheduled to land at the same time on an airport with a single runway. Obviously the actual landing times are staggered somewhat.

  • (nodebb) in reply to d-coder

    Maybe they have off-by-one errors in both the departure and arrival times.

  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    Look closer at the date-time info. At least they'll make it before Groundhog Day (unless it gets delayed..)

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to Barry Margolin

    Maybe they have an off-by-one error in the magnitude of their off-by-one error... who knows?

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    I think the first one is a display rounding issue. They're probably rounding the departure and arrival times to the nearest 5 minutes.

  • (nodebb)

    As to email validation ... My email TLD is "us". As in United States, one of the first TLDs ever.

    it was only last year that I encountered some stupid but not amateur website that rejected my TLD since it wasn't on their short whitelist of approved TLDs. Or maybe they just "validated" TLDs by confirming the length was 3. ("Thou shalt count to three, and only to three shalt thou count")

    Fortunately I keep a gmail.com backup for just such occurrences. And thus to three didst thou count and all was well within the realm. BOOM!

  • (I wanna be) a European Man (unregistered)

    So whats wrong with 10:40 - 7:15 is not 3h23min? Isn't anyone used to flying between time zones? Just because a flight takes a certain amount of time and times are shown in local time why are you trying to calculate journey time from start and finish time?

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