8 Days a Week! International Date Line

So for those of you that are Beatles fans, remember the song “Eight Days a Week”?

"Eight days a week
I love you.
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care."

Well, this week we can try “to make eight days enough to show you care” since we have we have Eight Days! Today is Wednesday June 28 and tomorrow is Wednesday June 28. Only possible when you cross the International Date Line (IDL). I feel a little woozy like we are in The Twilight Zone.

The IDL is an imaginary line extending between the North Pole and the South Pole separating the Western and Eastern Hemispheres and demarcating each calendar day from the next. Most of its length it corresponds with the 180th meridian of longitude. It does zig zag when it deviates westward to include the Aleutian Islands with Alaska to avoid any confusion of date and make sure it does not go thru land.

Traveling East we subtract a day, so today is June 28 and tomorrow is June 28!!!! It is 2 am and Latitude 52 degrees 30 minutes North and Longitude 170 degrees 57 minutes East and we just crossed the dateline.

P.S. The worst part? Our “ezy dose” seven-day pill box is “confused” …where do we get the eighth day of pills this week???Leggi altro