International Date Line

It's called Indochina Time, and its offset is UTC + 7 hours.

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.

The International Date Line is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and roughly follows the 180° meridian. When you cross the International Date Line from west to east, you subtract a day, and when you cross from east to west, you add a day. This creates a 24-hour time difference between two locations on either side of the line.

It is at midnight UTC on the International Date Line that the same calendar day is observed everywhere on Earth. At this point, the date changes from one day to the next for the entire planet simultaneously.

It's called Indochina Time, and its offset is UTC + 7 hours.

Yes, the International Date Line bends around the Aleutian Islands to keep them in the same day as the rest of Alaska. This deviation ensures that all territories within the United States share the same day.

Yes. The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It establishes the line of 0º longitude.

This arbitrary starting point defines locations by their separation in degrees east or west of the prime meridian, up to 180° in either direction.

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.

I don't think the Pacific Ocean passes through any continents, so the answer would be "All of them".

If you keep the charging time shorter than the time constant, the capacitor will not fully charge to its maximum voltage. The voltage across the capacitor will reach approximately 63% of the final value after one time constant. Therefore, if you stop charging before the capacitor fully charges, the voltage across the capacitor will be lower than expected.

The International Date Line separates Day 1 from Day 2 across the globe. Thus, if you are crossing the Internationa Date Line, you may be a day ahead or behind of the place you have travelled from.

If it is midnight in Greenwich, England, then it is midday on the International Date Line because the International Date Line is halfway around the world and separates one calendar day from another.

The IDL roughly follows the meridian of 180° longitude.

As a merciful favor to the inhabitants of countries that sit across the 180° meridian ... and people

who might want to travel to those countries ... the line was zig-zagged in order to let each country

have the same calendar date everywhere in the country.

Can you imagine what life would be like in a country that had two different calendar dates ?

Think doctor's appointments, airline and hotel reservations, bank accounts, delivery of orders,

business meetings, church services, etc.

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.

It doesn't cross ANY countries. That was done intentionally when the line was drawn, in order
to avoid splitting any single country, city, or island into two dates and days of the week.

The International Date Lines roughly follows the 180

No. The "Prime Meridian" (Greenwich Meridian) is 0° longitude and runs through Greenwich, England, western Europe, and Africa.

The International Date Line is on the other side of the world, at 180° longitude (east or west is the same line), and marks the start of each new calendar day. It is midnight at the Date line when it is noon at the Prime Meridian. The actual line has detours to accommodate Russia, the Aleutians, and New Zealand.

The two meridians form a circle around the planet, and each divides the Eastern Hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere.

The International Date line crosses the Arctic and Pacific oceans.

The Prime Meridian is located at 0 degrees, the international date line is not. There is only one prime meridian, there are many international date line.

through the middle of the Pacific Ocean

The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface that determines the change in calendar date when crossed. It roughly follows the 180° meridian and is used to mark the transition between consecutive calendar days. Crossing the date line from east to west results in gaining a day, while crossing from west to east results in losing a day.

The time difference between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Germany is 6 hours. Chattanooga is 6 hours behind Germany.

10 AM UK time is 2 AM Pacific time and 5 AM Eastern time.

Roughly 180o, the date line wiggles to avoid passing over inhabited land so that people don't have the complication of living with the dateline passing through their town.

Traveling west across the date line.