Going west, you must tear the current day off of your calendar and dispose of it
when you cross the IDL. Immediately as you cross, the date becomes one day
later.
It's not necessary to do anything to your watch, unless it's a calendar watch. If it is,
then you do whatever you must in order to make it indicate one day later, but you
make no change to the time.
When you cross the IDL from east to west ... like going from the US to Japan ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day later. You skip over 24 hours, and you 'lose' them. When you cross it going from west to east ... like toward the US and Canada from Asia ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day earlier. You get to live the same 24 hours all over again, so you 'gain' a day.
During the course of that trip, you cross the Dateline going west. Whenever one crosses the Dateline going west, he leaves the time on his clock unchanged, but he advances his calendar one day. That is, if his calendar reads July 24, he cranks it ahead to July 25.
When you cross the IDL from east to west ... like going from the US to Japan ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day later. You skip over 24 hours, and you 'lose' them. When you cross it going from west to east ... like toward the US and Canada from Asia ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day earlier. You get to live the same 24 hours all over again, so you 'gain' a day.
Follow the <Related Link> below for several maps and information articles all related to the International Dateline.
When you cross the International Date Line time zones change and you are in a different part of the world. *edit -- well actually you'd be in the same part of the world but it is agreed that the International Date Line is where the name of the day changes if you happen to be travelling. This can be very confusing because if you stop and think for a moment, you will realise that the time we call MIDNIGHT, sweeps around the world totally oblivious of some silly human line on the water. Now --- the Pacific Ocean from say, Sydney to Seattle, is a fixed number of SUN hours wide regardless of the IDL. Depending on daylight saving in each place, the Pacific can be 5 or 6 or 7 hours wide. That does not change just because of the IDL. ( That is unless you want to become immersed in this name change.) Daylight saving for the month of May means that the US West Coast Time is seven hours different from that of Sydney Australia. Midday Thursday in Sydney is 7pm on Wednesday in Seattle. Now consider this, at 3am Seattle time on Thursday morning, it is 8pm on Thursday in Sydney Australia. What became of the International Date Line? Midnight is the transition from one day to the next and when it's 7am on Thursday in Seattle, then Sydney Australia has just passed midnight into Friday, the day in advance of Seattle.eay to understand you just passed from one day to another
When you cross the IDL from east to west ... like going from the US to Japan ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day later. You skip over 24 hours, and you 'lose' them. When you cross it going from west to east ... like toward the US and Canada from Asia ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day earlier. You get to live the same 24 hours all over again, so you 'gain' a day.
During the course of that trip, you cross the Dateline going west. Whenever one crosses the Dateline going west, he leaves the time on his clock unchanged, but he advances his calendar one day. That is, if his calendar reads July 24, he cranks it ahead to July 25.
When you cross the IDL from east to west ... like going from the US to Japan ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day later. You skip over 24 hours, and you 'lose' them. When you cross it going from west to east ... like toward the US and Canada from Asia ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day earlier. You get to live the same 24 hours all over again, so you 'gain' a day.
No, not unless you're going the long way. ;)
When you cross the IDL from east to west ... like going from the US to Japan ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day later. You skip over 24 hours, and you 'lose' them. When you cross it going from west to east ... like toward the US and Canada from Asia ... you move your watch and calendar to read a day earlier. You get to live the same 24 hours all over again, so you 'gain' a day.
Nothing in particular happens; if you happen to be napping aboard the ship at the moment of crossing, you can sleep right through it, just as you do when crossing any other meridian of longitude. By international agreement, however, your calendar date becomes one less when you cross the International Date Line going east.
Follow the <Related Link> below for several maps and information articles all related to the International Dateline.
When you cross the International Date Line time zones change and you are in a different part of the world. *edit -- well actually you'd be in the same part of the world but it is agreed that the International Date Line is where the name of the day changes if you happen to be travelling. This can be very confusing because if you stop and think for a moment, you will realise that the time we call MIDNIGHT, sweeps around the world totally oblivious of some silly human line on the water. Now --- the Pacific Ocean from say, Sydney to Seattle, is a fixed number of SUN hours wide regardless of the IDL. Depending on daylight saving in each place, the Pacific can be 5 or 6 or 7 hours wide. That does not change just because of the IDL. ( That is unless you want to become immersed in this name change.) Daylight saving for the month of May means that the US West Coast Time is seven hours different from that of Sydney Australia. Midday Thursday in Sydney is 7pm on Wednesday in Seattle. Now consider this, at 3am Seattle time on Thursday morning, it is 8pm on Thursday in Sydney Australia. What became of the International Date Line? Midnight is the transition from one day to the next and when it's 7am on Thursday in Seattle, then Sydney Australia has just passed midnight into Friday, the day in advance of Seattle.eay to understand you just passed from one day to another
No. Amtrack is only a national train system and doesn’t cross international borders. A train going to Panama would have to be international.
If you cross it going away from the US towards Japan, you're robbed of 24 hours and you don't get them at all. If you cross it going from Japan towards the US, you get to live the previous 24 hours all over again. If you cross the line twice in opposite directions, then it all cancels out. It's a lot like changing your clocks to daylight savings time and then back to standard time, only the change is 24 times as much.
As I was going by Charing Cross was created in 1808.
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