I can recommend Greenwich (pronounced 'GREN-itch') as a great place to visit. Lots to see for everyone: mum, dad, the kids and the grandparents. For example: Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum, Queen's House, Greenwich Park, Greenwich Market, Old Royal Naval College, boat trips, cable car (over the Thames), the O2, Greenwich foot tunnel (under the Thames), the Docklands Light Railway, pubs, cafes, restaurants, tea shops and sausages.
It's so hilarious to see on Google Maps that some of Kiribati is at the same longitude line with Hawaii but there is a 24 hour difference between the two. I'm looking at this now and it's literally 10:48PM January 1st, 2021 in Napari Kiribati, but it's only 10:48PM December 31st, 2020 in Honolulu Hawaii!
Am I the only one that finds it completely ridiculous that there is a 21 hour time difference from Australia to Hawaii? Maybe it's time we re-evaluate these things.
Hawaii is 3 hours behind of California, when California uses daylight time from March to November. From November to March California is 2 hours ahead of Hawaii.
This video is really helpful. I had some doubts related to the IDL but it all got cleared when you mentioned that this line is drawn exactly opposite to the prime meridian. 👍
Very informative and awesome, loved the beginning bit too about the towns being confusing. I’m sure they were - how could people ever commute far distances to work if they had to switch time zones during the commute!?! They’d need 2 watches! So strange:) P.S. very handsome and pleasant accent, too!!! ;P
When you cross the international dateline in an easterly direction you subtract a day, but when you cross a midnight zone in the same direction you add a day. You add a day if crossing in a westerly direction and and subtract a midnight zone. Sometimes these additions and subtractions will cancel each other out and two positions will be on the same day.
I live in Buenos Aires, and I also saw that it was in UTC -4 which is why I missed the red moon on Apr. 14, 2014. They ridiculously have the country in UTC -3 even though it doesn´t belong there, so you might want to make a corrective comment in your video.
Daylight savings goes for too long, it is still dark at 7 in the morning , on nsw/qld border. (And qld doesnt do dst, just to confuse things, new years is celebtated x2, at tweed heads/coolangatta).
You could just Google it to find out the time there and the International date line used to be on Land when Alaska was apart of the Russian Empire, It only moved from when Alaska became apart of the United States
If there are 32 lines separating 33 segments, there has to be 33 hours in a day at the equator no matter what, or else time falls behind it is contradictory
What if you lived west of Sydney (142°30’E) you could step one side and be in one time zone and then step the other side and be in a different time zone
All of Sydney has the same time zone every day of the year. If you were in New South Wales, the state Sydney is in at 11:59pm on New Years eve, celebrated the new year and then step into Queensland before the next hour you could celebrate a second new year in the same night.
Brilliant... Made easy... Is there a place where night leaves and day adverts simultaneously?? It's confusing.. Nevertheless it's amazing how u teach..
Wait .. you can see the fireworks 2 times jest go in a country time zone for example +1 and then travel to a country with time zone 0 and you can see again fireworks for new year
When your travelling east it’s always later time Example If you travel New York to London You will have a later destination London to New York You will have an earlier destination
They just casually skipped a day... You saying that reminded me that everything is made up dates and the numbers on the clock, is all just an invention. (It's a wonderful way to stay organized though)
On the opposite side of the world to the Prime Meridian is the Antipodal Meridian (180 degrees longitude) The International Date Line also runs down this line, except it bends around some countries to keep that country i the same time zone. Hawaii and Australia are on different sides of that date line and are therefore on different days. The sun rises in the east and Australia will see the sun before Hawaii. By the time the sun rises in Hawaii, it will be the next day in Australia.
There's even a different time zone here on Earth for fast moving object like airplanes .00001 nanosecond slower as well as different time zone for satellites ;)
An agreement that 9am isn't in the middle of the night, but also that the minutes of a clock should be synced up instead of having 1 city saying it's 11:04 and another saying 11:18 at the exact same moment.
I read that from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM UTC it is 3 different days for the earth. For example at 11:00 PM on December 31st in baker island and Howland island in the central area of the pacific ocean it is january 1st for the majority of the world and 1:00 AM on january 2nd for Kiribati's line islands. Which is 26 hours later then the local time of baker island and Howland island.
