Can someone please explain the International Date Line to me? Obviously I understand time zones but how can there be a place where you always switch days?
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The other is to go across the IDL and go "back" into yesterday At the exact instant that it's midnight on the IDL, yesterday is over everywhere and the whole Earth is briefly in the same day Then at 12:00:01 tomorrow starts and begins slowly moving across the world
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I dunno if I'm explaining this very well Obviously in reality the Earth is a continuous range of solar time from midnight to noon to midnight as the Earth turns But in order to divide time into calendar days we need to have a starting point where we can say the day starts
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