![]() ![]() ![]() I mean to say, if you were browsing through your ticket folder and you saw a notice that said, “Passengers are advised that on some crossings twenty-four-hour loss of existence may occur” (which is, of course, how they would phrase it, as if it happened from time to time), you would probably get up and make inquiries, grab a sleeve, and say, “Excuse me.” There is, it must be said, a certain metaphysical comfort in knowing that you can cease to have material form and it doesn’t hurt at all, and, to be fair, they do give you back the day on the return journey when you cross the date line in the opposite direction and thereby manage somehow to arrive in Los Angeles before you left Sydney, which in its way, of course, is an even neater trick. I find it a little uncanny, to say the least. All I know is that for one twenty-four-hour period in the history of the earth, it appears I had no being. Where it went exactly I couldn’t tell you. I left Los Angeles on January 3 and arrived in Sydney fourteen hours later on January 5. A traveller crossing the IDL eastbound subtracts one day, or 24 hours, so that the calendar date to the west of the line is repeated after the following midnight. ![]() “Each time you fly from North America to Australia, and without anyone asking how you feel about it, a day is taken away from you when you cross the international date line. Read what Bill Bryson says.The experience of travelling across the International Date Line in “In a Sunburned Country”. Luxury New Zealand Self Drive Tours | Experience Luxury NZ. ![]()
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