It makes its greatest jog around the Republic of Kiribati (formerly called the Gilbert Islands near the Equator). For years it had made an adjustment between Samoa and Tonga which share the same time of day, but on different days of the week. Tonga used to advertise itself as the place Where Time Begins to lure tourists.
The dateline runs mostly along the 180th meridian but the dateline makes some deviations to avoid splitting countries in two. You can't mave one part of a country where it Wednesday and another Thursday. So the dateline goes along the 180 then jinks a little to go between Alaska and Russia then returns to 180 then moves again to avoid some pacific island countries and New Zealand's exclusive economic zone.
The International Date Line is nominally the line of 180 degrees longitude, both east and west ...
exactly opposite the Prime Meridian and half-the-earth away from it.
The Line was drawn with some jogs and zig-zags in it for political reasons, mainly
to avoid splitting island nations or contiguous areas of national interest.
It's so difficult getting to meetings and dental appointments on time as it is now.
Can you just imagine what it would be like if there were two different calendar
dates on opposite sides of the same town or island ?
In order to avoid cutting across any city, town, state, nation, or island group.
Business and life in general would be a nightmare in a city, state, or country in
which there were always two different calendar dates.
The International date line zig zags around the 180th meridian
Midnight, on the morning of the day after.
The maximum degree of latitude is 90 degrees north and south, so 180 degrees latitude does not exist. If you meant 180 degrees longitude, then the answer would be that the International Date Line, a major line of longitude, is located there.
The Prime Meridian and its opposite the 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), which the International Date Line generally follows, form a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
The purpose of the zigs and zags in the International Dateline is to avoid splitting any single state, country, or island into two different calendar dates. If the dateline exactly followed the 180 meridian, part of Alaska would have been on a date different from the rest of the USA.
The International Date Line runs primarily along the 180 degree longitudinal line. The Equator runs along 0 degrees latitude. The lines intersect along in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (0 degrees North, 180 degrees West).
The International Dateline approximately follows the meridian of 180° longitude.
The international dateline passes through the Pacific Ocean. The international dateline is an imaginary line that is 180 degrees east of the Greenwich Meridian.
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Midnight, on the morning of the day after.
You're getting at the International Dateline. It roughly follows the line of longitude at 180 degrees east/west, and really has little to do with standardized international dates, whatever those are.
-- The "Prime Meridian" marks zero longitude. -- The "180th meridian" marks 180° longitude. The International Dateline is either on or relatively near the 180th meridian at any given latitude on it.
no the international dateline is 180 degrees, but the meridians; or prime meridian is 0 degrees.
My educated would be Alaska, since the International Dateline is 180 degrees W/E and 75 is considerably high north on latitude standards.
The International Dateline roughly follows the line of longitude that is both 180° E longitude and 180° W longitude, which passes through the western Pacific Ocean. The Dateline is shifted east or west in several locations to maintain a common date for associated countries or regions (Russia, US, New Zealand).