When Travel to the Far East.

Dear Friend and Reader,


Travel to other countries is always an exceptional experience, e.g. if you travel to Europe you leave in the afternoon and arrive in Europe the next day in the afternoon.

When you travel to Asia you leave in the morning and you are arriving at the other day almost at midnight depending on your destination. You lost on your flight almost a day.

This phenomenon happens because of the International Dateline. You ask hey Anton what is the International Dateline and why do you loose almost one day? I’ll try to explain in my own words. International Date Line
The International Date Line is around 180 ° longitudes.
The International Date Line (IDL),as also known as just the Date Line, is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian which offsets the date as one travels east or west across it. Along the 180 degree Prime Meridian which corresponds to the time zone boundary separating +12 and -12 hours from GMT.

When traveling across the IDL east results in a 24 hours day loss because the time will be subtracted and traveling across the IDL west results in a day being added.
According Wikipedia the first date-line problem occurred in connection with the navigation around the globe by Magellan’s expedition around 1519 to 1522. The crewmembers who survived turned to a Spanish colonized stopover and they were sure of the day of the week because of their various and carefully maintained sailing logs. But the habitants of the island insisted the day was different as they were been told from the surviving screw. This phenomenon caused so much excitement that they send afterwards a delegation to the Pope in Rome that he’ll explained why that happening was.

Talk to you soon,

Anton
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