Quoting Simon Hobson ([email protected]): > Ah, I stand corrected, according to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B14:00 it was because parts of the > colony were on different sides of the IDL and that meant that they > only had 4 working days in common - Monday on one island would be > Sunday on another, and similarly with Friday/Saturday (in the reverse > direction).
I've recently been to one of those places: Fanning Island, part of the Republic of Kiribati (part of the Line Islands). This was part of an ocean cruise from the Port of San Francisco to Honolulu, Fanning Island, Western Samoa, Fija, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Sydney -- and one amusement is that my wife's birthday didn't exist on the ship, because we skipped that day in crossing the International Date Line. -- Cheers, Grossman's Law: "In time of crisis, people do not rise to Rick Moen the occasion. They fall to the level of their training." [email protected] http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#grossman McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
