时区达人腕表世界中的旅行一族.docVIP

时区达人腕表世界中的旅行一族 　　If you travel regularly， you understand that figuring out what time it is where you are， where you are going and where you started can be a real challenge. Yet， time is essential to travel - planes are scheduled to the minute， and on the traveler’s side， it’s important to know what time it is no matter what part of the world you are in， so you don’t miss your flight or you make sure you are on time for that important meeting. Also， you need to know what time it is back home so you don’t call and wake people up in the middle of the night. Trying to do all that with an ordinary， single time zone watch is challenging， involving mathematics and mental gymnastics not so easily accomplished when jet lagged. That’s where time zone watches， also known as dual time， world time or GMT/UTC watches， come in. These watches have a way to display at least two time zones to make things easier on travelers， doing the calculations required to figure out time zones for you， so the hardest decision you have to make is which watch to buy. 在旅途中同时摸清出发地、所在地和目的地的时间会有多难？对于经验丰富的旅行者而言，你不得不承认这是一个挑战。 时间就是贯穿旅程的节骨眼：航班的精确度以分钟计算，而旅客无论身处何地，都必须牢牢掌握时间，这样才不会误点。即便是在往自己家里赶，时间对你也一样重要：你不愿在某个静静的午夜用电话“突袭”你的亲朋好友，给他们带来尴尬吧？ 如果你始终戴着一枚单时区的普通手表长途跋涉，你需要拥有超乎寻常的心算能力；而万一飞机误了点，你的脑力将遭受加倍考验。 于是我们就有了多时区手表，人们通常还管它叫GMT/UTC或双时区手表。这类宝贝都至少能显示两个以上的不同时区，是旅行者当之无愧的福音。制造商为人们克服了时区的挑战，但我们还将面临一个新的问题：哪款多时区手表更适合你呢？ A Short History of （World） Time Before the advent of standard time in 1918， every city and region in the world operated on local solar time orapparent solar time （also known assun time）， which was its own system of time ? independent of any other city. Most cities around the world had some sort of timekeeper， a clock chime， a whistle or a bell， to which people could synchronize their clocks and pocket watches. Back then， in a city like Los Angeles， local time could vary as much as a minute or more from one side of the city to the other due to the sun’s relative position in the sky. For example， sun time differ