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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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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So if it's 3 pm Monday on the west side of the IDL it's always 4 pm *Sunday* on the east side, because Monday started at midnight and moved west
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