Tuesday, September 26, 2023

   INTERNATIONAL DATELINE 



Coral Princess crosses the International Dateline on September 26. It is of course an imaginary line positioned at about 180 degrees from Zero degrees longitude in Greenwich, England. When travelling from west to east as we will do, We are required to set our clocks forward by one hour for every 15 degrees of longitude and back by 24 hours upon crossing the 'line'. Now, had that been September 24, I could have celebrated my birthday twice in the one year! Samoa and American Samoa are 'artificially separated' by the International Dateline that allows American Samoa to relate to US time and for Samoa to relate to its trading partners in the South Pacific!  



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  1. NAT DUNCANSeptember 29, 2023 at 9:58 PM

    Bummer about missing that birthday celebration again! You could have asked for more lobster!

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