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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
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