Around the World in 1 Day (Solution)
by Charles Steinhardt
Each image can be identified both as a specific location and to a specific time of day, either from a visible clock in the image or from context that can be determined by finding the image's source.
If the images were all taken in a 24-hour span in January, then taking time-zones into account they end up in the following order, beginning with midnight mass as indicated by the flavortext:
Image | City | Time | UTC+/- | Military Timezone Designation |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | Vatican City | 0:00 | +1 | A |
17 | Terceira | ~23:00 | -1 | N |
5 | Chicago | 19:15 | -6 | S |
11 | Kailua-Kona | 15:51 | -10 | W |
20 | Dushanbe | 8:45 | +5 | E |
2 | New York | 23:15 | -5 | R |
16 | Brisbane | ~15:15 | +10 | K |
4 | Melbourne | ~17:15 | +11 | L |
9 | Tokyo | 3:35 | +9 | I |
3 | Praia | 7:25 | -1 | N |
12 | Chiang Rai | 16:20 | +7 | G |
6 | Rio de Janeiro | 7:25 | -2 | O |
24 | Ponta Delgada | 10:30 | -1 | N |
18 | Rome | 13:35 | +1 | A |
22 | Nauru (link) | 1:00 | +12 | M |
15 | Riga | 15:45 | +2 | B |
1 | Paris | ~16:00 | +1 | A |
13 | Milwaukee | 9:20 | -6 | S |
23 | New Orleans | 11:25 | -6 | S |
21 | Monte Carlo | 19:00 | +1 | A |
7 | Moscow | 23:20 | +4 | D |
19 | Sao Paulo | 18:25 | -2 | O |
10 | Boston | 15:46 | -5 | R |
14 | St. Louis | 15:40 | -6 | S |
The military timezone designations spell out ANSWER KLINGON AMBASSADORS.