When one travels west while passing over a time zone boundary (ignoring daylight savings time issues),
A) the date is decreased one day.
B) the time is decreased one hour.
C) the time is advanced one hour.
D) the date is advanced one day.
E) none of these occurs.

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When you travel west across a time zone boundary, you move into a zone where the local time is one hour earlier than where you were before, hence the time is decreased by one hour.

When One Travels West While Passing Over a Time Zone