3. You are a traveller travelling across the International Date line from east to
west. If the time and date is 10 am, 1st January, 2021 in the east what will be the
time and date on the western side? Justify your answer
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The world is divided into 24 time zones, planned so that noon is basically when the sun is crossing the meridian, or line of longitude, of any given location.
But there has to be a place where there is a difference in days, somewhere a day truly "starts" on the planet. Thus, the 180-degree line of longitude, exactly one-half way around the planet from Greenwich, England (at 0 degrees longitude), is approximately where the international date line is located.
Cross the line from the east to the west, and you gain a day. Cross from west to the east, and you lose a day.
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