The
International Date Line
Four days and
counting! The biggest thing on my mind right now is the actual journey to get
there! We leave on January 4th
but don’t arrive until the 6th.
The total trip will take about 32 hours but our itinerary says,
“NOTE: This flight arrives two full days
after it departs.” Crossing the
International Date Line throws us one day into the future. Ok, I’ve changed
time zones many times before. I get
that. I’ll admit, we got a little
confused about what time it was when we traveled around Arizona, Nevada, and
Utah but we adjusted. I think it’s a little crazy that some places follow
daylight savings time while their neighboring states don’t, but OK. But this International Date Line thing makes
my head hurt!
Check out the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpWCTHjzQI Is there one International Date Line or two?
A plane can fly from Monday, right through Tuesday, and back into Monday. WHAAAT?? Way to make your birthday last a
long time!! If you do that, do you age?
If a plane keeps flying around the world, it will simply switch between
two days. WHAAAT?? What if it flies in the other direction? Is that what Superman did when he reversed
time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjgsnWtBQm0
Now that makes sense to me. If a plane keeps flying around the world, why
wouldn’t it keep going back more days?
And a person at the North Pole could easily walk in a circle between the
two days! Ah! I think I’ve discovered how Santa delivers
all those gifts in just one night!!
If you can’t figure out what
day it will be where we are, just remember, when it’s from 11:00-11:59 pm at
the International Date Line, the entire world is on the same day. You will have
to figure out what time that is where you are. But don’t wait too long because
at midnight, half the world goes into a new day! Thank God we’re going to get
back the day we lost when we come home!
We’re not getting any younger and can’t afford to give up any days!
J
New Zealand time http://localtimes.info/Oceania/New_Zealand/Christchurch/
