Two zones runs right through this spot.” This being a show about cookery rather than cartography, the next shot showed a steak baking in butter (or oil, I forget). He pointed north: “Over there, people bake their food in butter.” And then south: “There, they use oil. The TV presenter was standing on a rooftop in central France. the fixed borderline between the two calendar days that share the planet at any given time. īoth Samoan adjustments are but two examples of the mind-boggling things that can mess up the seemingly straightforward act of timekeeping at or near the 180th meridian, ever since it was elevated to become Two consecutive 4ths of July, to align itself with the American side of the Pacific. Trade had also been the argument for the previous change, in the other direction: in 1892, Samoa celebrated By sacrificing one day - and those 500 birthdays - Samoa was able to hop back across to the Asian side of the Internationalĭate Line, bringing its calendar in line with Australia, China and other major trading partners. In the seamless succession of the 29th by the 31st. In a curious experiment in collective time travel, the entire Pacific island nation skipped Dec. Late last year, some 500 inhabitants of Samoa had their birthday stolen. Borderlines explores the global map, one line at a time.
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