How the International Date Line Works

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Uploaded by on Dec 19, 2009

How the international date line works.

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"Summer", by Arts and Kraphts Galleries (found on AudioSwap).

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  • Here's one thing I don't understand. Say the red area is Tuesday and the blue are is Monday. So what if I leave the US on tuesday and travel to Australia while the pacific ocean still has some Monday left in it. Am I hitting Australia on Tuesday or would it be Wednesday?

  • @TheMorbidKlown Look at 1:18. If you could fly there instantly, you'd go from Tuesday to Monday and back into Tuesday.

    Chances are that you'd pass over the international date line at some point, going from Monday into Tuesday.

    However, if you crossed over the date line at exactly midnight, you'd go from 11:59 pm Monday to 12:00 a.m. Wednesday.

  • whats the song?

    

  • @bbalplayer2 "Summer", by Arts and Kraphts Galleries

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  • So time travel is possible!!!

  • yay i get it!

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  • Good film, BUT does anyone know why the dateline is crooked when it gets to the Phoenix Islands. I have heard all kinds of ridiculous excuses like "Oh well, they didn't want to be in this time zone. They wanted to be in that time zone." NO, why is the dateline crooked? Can somebody give me a reasonable answer to this question. I've asked teachers and nobody has an answer. I was a teacher and I don't know the answer.

  • time travel exist no lie 

  • I didn't understand few things:

    Firstly, does that mean that two different days are observed at the same time in the world?

    How can we travel from Monday to Tuesday and back to Monday?

  • @AWesome61696 If you were staggering around the North Pole with your iPhone and watching the Times Square celebration, how many times could you watch the ball drop?

  • awesome video ...thanks!

  • Imagine crossing the international date line, from December 31st of one year to January 1st if another, and back. That would be sick.

  • good video, answers alot of questions, except some points a little confusing

  • @bg048 no i am sorry but that is not called time travel

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