Times are the station’s own

Also: time zone, timezone, pacific time

A train’s times are shown as the clock at its station read, wherever your phone is.

Example

The same moment

At San Francisco
16:55
At London Paddington
00:55, the next day

In summer, when California is eight hours behind Britain.

A journey in the Bay Area is shown in Pacific time, and a journey in Britain in UK time. It doesn’t matter where you are when you look: the 16:55 from San Francisco is always the 16:55.

That’s how timetables, tickets and station clocks work, so it’s how your journeys read too. The day a journey belongs to is the day it was at the station where it started.

In Trainiac

Every time on a journey, and the day it’s filed under.

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