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What happens when you travel across the dateline?
Submitted by: AdministratorIf westbound, the day changes to the next day. If eastbound, the day is the day before. Seems strange, but it all works out.
Let's imagine we're on the beach in the early evening west of the dateline at 4:59 PM Tuesday. If we swim eastward across the dateline and continue east seven time zones, it will be 11:59 PM Monday. We rest from all this exercise and ponder the strangeness of turning back a day. Whew! One more minute and it will be Tuesday anyway. Continue 17 more time zones (24 totals) eastward and it will be 4:59 PM Tuesday. Just like we left it. It works just fine in the reverse going the other way.
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Let's imagine we're on the beach in the early evening west of the dateline at 4:59 PM Tuesday. If we swim eastward across the dateline and continue east seven time zones, it will be 11:59 PM Monday. We rest from all this exercise and ponder the strangeness of turning back a day. Whew! One more minute and it will be Tuesday anyway. Continue 17 more time zones (24 totals) eastward and it will be 4:59 PM Tuesday. Just like we left it. It works just fine in the reverse going the other way.
Submitted by: Administrator
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