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International Date Line
The International Date Line is a line of longitude roughly located at 180 degrees. It marks the two different days on Earth, where 24 hours is added or subtracted when one crosses the line.
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What is the standardized time?
- The Standard or Standardized time is defined as:
2. Amount of time (computed over a significant number of production cycles) it should take an average qualified worker (or group of workers) to complete a specified task working at a sustainable rate, while using given equipment, methods, practices, tools, materials, and workplace arrangements.
- The Standard or Standardized time is the result of synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a time zone to the same time rather than using the local meridian as in local mean time or solar time.
- Historically, this helped in the process of weather forecasting and train/air travel.
- The time so set has come to be defined in terms of offsets from Universal Time.
- Where daylight saving time is used, the term standard time typically refers to the time without the offset for daylight saving time.
- The adoption of Standard Time, because of the inseparable correspondence between time and longitude, solidified the concepts of halving the globe into an eastern and western hemisphere, with one Prime Meridian (as well its opposite International Dateline) replacing the various Prime Meridians that were in use.
Is Honolulu Hawaii across the international date line?
That really depends on where you are, doesn't it ?
But wait! It doesn't even depend on where you are. The Earth is spherical
(shaped like a ball), so no matter where you happen to be, the choice is yours:
You can cross the dateline on the way to Honolulu if you want to, or you can go
the other way and get there without crossing it.
It's 12:52:35 AM, Saturday, February 1, 2014.
Note:
By the time you see this answer, it will be wrong.
Tonga is east of the international dateline?
Nuku'Alofa, the capital, is about 300 miles east of the IDL.
Is French Polynesia east or west of the dateline?
French Polynesia is east of the International Date Line.
What is the difference between a poleward moving current and a equatorward moving ocean current?
The interaction between the oceans surface and the circulation of the lower atmosphere is the primary cause of the surface currents in the oceans. A current generally refers to the horizontal movement of water. The direction, speed, and the temperature of the water masses moved by the ocean currents play an important role in climatology by transporting heat energy. Currents may be small-scale, transient features, resulting from seasonal or local effects or large-scale, permanent features, covering vast portions of the oceans, resulting from atmospheric circulation patterns
What time will it be in the UK when it will be 8.00 eastern time?
It would be 4 or 3 o'clock depending on whether or not it is daylight saving time. It would be 4 o'clock currently as daylight saving time is observed until the 1st of November.
What is 11am to 8pm Philippine time convert to United States?
I don't know, but, I know the answer! ASK SOMEBODY ELSE THAT KNOWS!
What countries does the prime meridian pass through aloung the meterainean sea?
-- The Prime Meridian leaves the European continent and enters the Mediterranean
at a point on the coast of Spain, about 42 miles northeast of Valencia.
-- The Prime Meridian also crosses part of France, which has a coastline elsewhere
on the Mediterranean.
-- It leaves the Mediterranean at the north coast of Algeria.
yup
What day is it in west Africa now?
probably same day if you are in the US. Nigeria is same time zone as London, 5 hours later than Eastern US, will be 6 hours later with clock change in the fall.
Why is the international date line not straight line?
The International Date Line is nominally the line of 180 degrees longitude, both east and west ... exactly opposite the Prime Meridian.
The Line was drawn with some jogs and zig-zags in it for political reasons, mainly to avoid having it split island nations or contiguous areas of national interest.
What will the impact be when crossing the international dateline from rarotonga to Auckland?
Auckland is 22 hours ahead of Rarotonga when New Zealand is on Standard Time and 23 hours ahead during Daylight Saving Time.
Daylight Saving Time in New Zealand begins on the last Sunday of September at 02:00 NZST and ends on the first Sunday of April at 03:00 NZDT.
What countries lie in Mercosur?
Countries that are members of Mercosur are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname are currently associate members.
Which international line runs through Brazil?
The two major international lines of the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn run through Brazil.
The Equator divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. It passes through Brazil at 0 degrees North latitude 70 degrees 3 minutes West longitude. It through Brazil at 23 degrees 26 minutes South latitude 55 degrees 38 minutes West longitude. It goes through the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Parana, and Sao Paulo.
The Tropic of Capricorn is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark world maps. It lies 23 degrees 26 minutes 22 seconds south of the Equator. It marks the most southern latitude at which the sun appears directly overhead at noon.
If it is Sunday in the US what day is it in Australia?
depends on what time it is in the US but for info in Eastern time, Australia is ahead 14hrs.
for example it is Monday 7:00am in Eastern time, Australia is 9:00pm Monday.
if it's 7:00pm Monday in Eastern time, Australia is 7:00am Tuesday.
Wonderful! The International Dateline is the line where, by international agreement,
the date is always different on both sides of it. Now you come along and tell us
the date " AT " the line. What is that supposed to mean ?
-- If the time is 12:01 AM on 12/21/2012 on the EAST side of the line,
then it's 5:01 AM on the same date in Denver.
-- If the time is 12:01 AM on 12/21/2012 one inch away, on the WEST side of the line,
then it' 5:01 AM on the previous date, 12/20/2012, in Denver.
When it noon in on Sunay at the prime meridian what day and time is in Norway?
It is 1:00 PM on Sunday, from the end of October until the end of March.
At the end of March, Norway switches to daylight savings time, and advances
their clocks by one hour.
From the end of March until the end of October, it will be 2:00 PM on Sunday.
Through which ocean does most of the international date line pass through?
Pacific ocean
The Pacific Ocean, to the east of New Zealand.
Is Dubai in east of the international date line?
Since the Earth is roughly spherical (ball-shaped), you can head out either eastward
or westward from the International Dateline and wind up anywhere you want to be.
If Dubai is your final destination and you are presently anywhere on the International
Dateline ... with two exceptions ... then the shortest route to Dubai is westward
from your present location.
The exceptions are the very end-points of the International Dateline at the north and
south poles. At the poles, there is no such thing as 'east' or 'west', so no matter
where your final destination is, you would need to head out toward the south from
the north pole, or towards the north from the south one.
Which imaginary line circles the earth at 23.5 s latitude?
23.44° south latitude is the Tropic of Capricorn. It is the farthest south that the sun can ever be directly overhead (on the December solstice).
