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- A while back, I made a promise.
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(soft music)
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Someday, I'll make a video
about this whole messy debacle.
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So today I intend to make
good on that promise.
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Here we go.
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(upbeat music)
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This line is weird.
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It's not a border,
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but I guess it kind of
is, it divides something.
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If it's Monday evening
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and you fly from Hawaii to New Zealand,
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you'll cross into Tuesday
evening and then back
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into Monday evening and then
back into Tuesday evening.
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And because you've been
flying for a while,
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now it's probably Wednesday morning.
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You just jumped
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from Monday to Wednesday
on a nine hour flight.
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Better yet, jump in your
boat on a Tuesday afternoon
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and go a few hundred kilometers south.
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And suddenly you're watching
the sunset on a Monday
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because you drove south in your boat.
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Wait what?
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So I want to understand this line.
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So naturally the first thing I do is go
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into After Effects and try to map it out.
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As I scoured the internet
for good data on this,
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I realized that everyone's
international dateline
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is slightly different,
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from Google Maps to the CIA fact book,
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to the Pacific Island
Ocean Observing System,
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which is an organization
that has the elegant acronym
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of PacIOOS.
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Anyway, I spent the day
scraping all the data I could,
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and trying to map this line.
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Looks like it's 195 miles
or around 300 kilometers.
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That's a huge difference.
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There are entire islands
with people that Google
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says are on one side and
PacIOOS say are on the other.
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Who's right here?
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Before we settle that,
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I want to dig into what this line even is
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and why it looks the way it does.
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Okay, so this whole crossing a line
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and passing over a day
and going back in time
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and all of that, is a little bit hard
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for I know my brain to get around.
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And I imagine that a lot
of you came to this video,
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hoping that you will leave this video
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with a firm grasp of what The
International Date Line is.
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So I'm going to dive in and
explain it the best I can.
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First, let's look at
the earth from top down.
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So we're looking at the earth
from above, like top down.
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Here's great Britain over here.
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And of course,
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we've got our beautiful sun
shining light onto our earth
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which gives us day and night.
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Land that is rotating into
this light is seeing a sunrise,
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land that is transitioning
out of this light
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is seeing a sunset.
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And it's the relationship
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to this light that we
measure our time with,
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with noon being the point
where we are right smack dab
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in the middle of the sun's light.
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So right now it's noon in Florida.
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Okay, you already know this,
but I'm setting it up here
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because it helps the
Date Line makes sense.
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Let's go back to Britain,
which is upside down right now
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because remember we're
looking down on the globe,
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like we're looking down at the North Pole.
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Also, this circle is pretty sloppy.
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Let's clean it up and
make it a nice square
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so you can keep your eye on it.
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It's important because all
time is measured from here,
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technically in a little
observatory called Greenwich.
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So let's say, here in London,
it is the middle of the day,
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on a Monday.
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Okay, so it's noon on a Monday,
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the sun is shining right on London.
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So let's freeze time and
look what's happening
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a few thousand kilometers east of here
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in the middle of Russia, it's 6:00 PM.
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The sun is setting.
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It's still Monday, but the
sun is setting on Monday.
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At this same moment, frozen in
time, over here in East Asia,
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we've got China and there's Japan.
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It's still noon in London, remember that,
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but it's late over here.
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The sun has gone down.
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It's 9:00 PM in Japan.
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It's still Monday.
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It's just late.
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The sun went down hours ago.
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These people are finishing Monday.
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It's like the middle
of the night on Monday.
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It's noon in London.
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Let's zoom out and
realize that it's Monday,
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all around the world.
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The more west you go from London
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it is actually earlier on Monday.
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East of London, it's
late on a Monday night,
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like we just saw.
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It's later and later the more east you go.
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This is The International Date Line.
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It divides whether or not
it's late on a Monday night
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or early on a Monday morning.
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Now let's press play
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on the globe and watch
it rotate into a new day.
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Remember that these
guys right here are like
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at 11:00 PM, basically midnight.
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They're about to start Tuesday.
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I'll keep Monday as this orange circle
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and I'll use green for Tuesday.
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Okay, press play.
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(upbeat music)
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Okay stop, zoom in, here in
the middle of the Pacific.
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It's almost 11:00 AM on Tuesday, right?
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You're 12 hours ahead of
Greenwich Mean Time in London.
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Go right over this line and
you'll still be around 11:00 AM.
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The sun is still shining in the same way,
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but now you are 12 hours
behind Greenwich Mean Time,
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but it's still Monday.
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You're 12 hours behind Greenwich.
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It hasn't passed into a new day yet.
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And that's how you're
able to cross this line
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and go back a day or forward a day,
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even though you only go
a few hundred kilometers.
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Okay.
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I'm sure you're tired of
looking at this top down globe.
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It's kind of disorienting
and not super intuitive.
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So let's see what this
looks like on a map,
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on a regular old map.
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Here we are in the same exact scenario.
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It's around 11:00 AM right here.
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And yet it's Tuesday here
and Monday over here.
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I'm going to call this side which is later
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than London's time, it's east
of London, the Tuesday side.
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And I'm going to call this side,
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which is behind London or west
of London, the Monday side.
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I'll just use that, that's
my own little terminology.
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I'm gonna start using that.
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And no one else uses it like that,
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but I'm just going to for
the rest of this video, okay.
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I'm interrupting all of this
conceptual non-intuitive stuff
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for a little intermission.
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I want you to just look
at this for a second.
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There are a bunch of beautiful
islands in the Pacific.
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This one's called Aitutaki.
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That's really what it's called.
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That was my best accent.
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Just remember that The
International Date Line runs
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through some of the most
beautiful ocean in the world,
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and it's worth just
looking at it for a second.
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Let's get going on this
question of why it's different
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on every map.
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Why does this line look so messed up,
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and what's with this notch?
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And why can't anyone agree
on what it should look like?
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This is the part that
I knew nothing about.
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And it's fascinating.
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Technically, according to
our little conceptual model
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that we just did, the line
should just be like this,
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a straight line that's on
the exact opposite side
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of the world as Greenwich.
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Meaning if Greenwich is zero,
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this would be the 180th Meridian.
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But as I've said many times before,
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nature isn't super good at straight lines.
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So instead it looks like this.
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It starts out following the
180th Meridian as it should.
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Then it splits off right here to make sure
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that this Russian Island and
then the very eastern tip
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of Russia don't get sliced in two,
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to become part of different days.
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As it accommodates Russia.
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It passes right here
between Russia and Alaska.
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If you zoom in,
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you'll see that it passes right
through these two islands.
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These islands are just
a few kilometers away
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from each other.
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The sun sets at the same
time on both these islands,
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they're right next to each other.
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The difference is the sun is setting
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on a Tuesday here and on a Monday here.
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After Russia, the line heads
back west to meet up with
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the 180th, but it passes
it in order to keep all
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of these islands on this side
because they belong to Alaska.
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This notch goes all the way
over to accommodate this island
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of Alaska, which is this
tiny outpost of 21 people.
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It looks like the most western
part of the United States,
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but really because it's on the other side
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of the 180th Meridian,
everything left of this line
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is actually in the Eastern hemisphere.
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So this is technically
the eastern most part
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of the US but whatever,
it doesn't really matter.
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It's all, these are all fake lines anyway.
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Okay, so we've zigzagged back and forth,
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crossing the 180th Meridian a few times
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to accommodate Russia
and the United States.
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It finally gets back onto the 180th
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and starts following it
south for a really long time.
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Once it gets to the equator,
we begin the big game
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of whose side are you on?
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All these islands in the Pacific
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and there are loads of them,
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have to make a decision on whether
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or not they want to be the
first people to start new days,
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or the last people to end those days.
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We've got this big notch here
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which basically exists
to accommodate Kiribati,
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which is an island nation
of just like 112,000 people.
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But this nation is spread
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across a huge swath of ocean,
which spans an area greater
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than the continental United States.
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It's huge.
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It bounces around here to
make sure that Kiribati
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is on the Eastern hemisphere time zone
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with Australia and Asia,
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and that other nations
like the Cook Islands
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are on the western part,
like with the United States.
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It dips down here between Samoa,
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which is on the Tuesday
side and the islands
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of American Samoa, which
are on the Monday side,
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same with the United States.
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From here, the line heads straight south,
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but not along the 180th like it should,
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instead it follows
closer to like the 172nd.
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This has meant to allow a bunch
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of these island nations to
stay in the Tuesday side
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so that they can be on the same date
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as big regional countries
like Australia or New Zealand.
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Then finally it meets up
with the 180th Meridian
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and it follows it all the
way down to Antarctica.
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Okay.
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So that is this line and why it exists
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and why it zigzags and all
of its twists and turns.
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So our two important questions here,
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why does it look so weird,
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and why is it different on every map?
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The first one we can kind
of answer pretty easily
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after seeing where the line goes,
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which is this line is really flexible.
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It's not a real border.
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It doesn't denote any
land that somebody owns.
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A regular border is defined
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through conflict or negotiation,
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and it denotes the
sovereignty of a country.
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You own this and I own that.
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That is what a normal border does.
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This doesn't do that.
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The Date Line is a decision
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that every country can make for itself.
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When they're in the
Pacific they can decide,
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oh, I want to be on the same
date as Australia and Japan,
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or I want to be on the same date as Hawaii
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and the United States.
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That is a unilateral decision
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that no country has to
negotiate with others to make.
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The Pacific nation of Samoa has decided
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it would be better off if it observed
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a time zone closer to that
of Australia and New Zealand.
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So it's declared, it
will switch to our side
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of The International Date Line
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Before that big notch existed,
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half of Kiribati was in the Tuesday side
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and the other half was in the Monday side,
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which just made it really
hard where it was like Friday
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on this side, and if people wanted to get
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in touch with people in their country,
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it was already Saturday on their side
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and so they were off for the weekend.
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So they unilaterally decided
in 1995 to just change the line
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and put the entire country
on the Tuesday side.
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So every country decides
how they want to do it,
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and because of that,
it's changed dramatically
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over the years as countries
just make their own decision
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on what date and times
that they want to be in.
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So now to my second
question and the big one
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that I was very curious
about which is who's right?
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After a day of fixating on this question
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and mapping and doing all
this stuff on the computer,
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it all came down to this moment.
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You have these two versions of
the notch that are different.
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The black one is Google Maps.
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This is how Google Maps displays it on all
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of their different platforms.
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And this yellow one is from that PacIOOS,
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the Pacific observer something
I don't really remember,
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but it's like a big authority
for the Pacific Ocean.
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Remember that this is the Monday side
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and this is the Tuesday side,
same time, different dates.
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As I zoomed around this,
I saw these islands.
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Google says that these islands are
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on the Tuesday side, the
one day ahead inside.
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Whereas PacIOOS says that
these are on the Monday side,
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meaning the one day behind side.
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I checked the official time zone
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for every one of these islands,
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and discover that they all
belong to the Cook Islands,
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which is a set of islands
connected to New Zealand.
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But that is on GMT minus 10,
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meaning it's 10 hours behind GMT,
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not a bunch of hours in front of GMT.
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In short, all of these
islands are on Monday side.
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PacIOOS has it right, and
Google Maps has it wrong.
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Wait, what?
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Google Maps has something wrong.
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Bit of an existential
crisis I've been going
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through the past couple of days.
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I want to be wrong on this.
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In fact, if somebody comments
and points out a flaw
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in my logic or my analysis here,
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I will be grateful for that,
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because this is something that, I mean,
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I have a really deep
appreciation for Google Maps
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and all of the wonderful
mapping that they do,
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but I think they got this wrong.
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Somebody prove me wrong, please.
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And if not, my world view
has just shifted slightly.
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But here's the thing,
at the end of the day,
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it doesn't really matter.
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The fact that Google Maps
didn't painstakingly weave
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it's line through all of these islands,
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is kind of an indication
that these borders,
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these fake borders, these
lines don't actually
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do anything besides
describe the preference
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on how different countries
want to measure their time.
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It doesn't give anyone extra land.
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It doesn't give anyone
extra waters or minerals
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or any of this stuff
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that usually make lines really important.
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In this case, we're
describing a preference.
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And so I'm sure that these
mapping organizations
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haven't cared too much about
getting the shape perfectly
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in this vast swath of ocean
that is mostly uninhabited.
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That's The International Date Line.
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