Geography, asked by aniruth374p8odn9, 1 year ago

Why is IDL is not a straight line

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Answered by rivu4
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If it is a straight line, then it demarcates the same land mass into two parts and then both places have different dates on the same day. It would be very inconvenient if one part of a country had one date of the week while another part would have the different date.

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Answered by dheerjkumar
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As we know that the earth’s shape is spheroid, but do we know that how to determine time, date and locate places on earth. For that matter, we have to draw some imaginary lines like longitude, latitude, equator, prime meridian for navigation and geographical information.

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