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To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: gLondahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43774

I close my case! Thank you donald. Good luck, Greg

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 43774

48?

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: Siber	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43774

I plan to be kissing someone very special the instant it turns January 1st (heck, I might even start early)....and by the time that's finished, chances are fairly good that I won't care about the rest of the earth. swoooooon LOL Think I'll fly on outta here now. Toodles, Helene

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Scottoo	Respond to of 43774

36 WR Scott

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: PatP	Respond to of 43774

I agree with 36. PatP

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Fred C. Dobbs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 43774

47

To: Valkyrie who wrote (38454)	6/20/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43774

OK..first this: goals.com Now if I understand the question correctly then. On December 31st 11:59 P.m> you are standing on the IDA. It is already January 1st West from you, has been for 12 hours. So...12 hours remain left for that part of the world. Also 24 hours will pass for your part of the world... And then there will be yet another 24 hours left for the rest of the world to catch up so.. 60 hours... Am I right? other info of interest: Three years ago, the tiny Pacific Ocean country of Kiribati moved the International Date Line. The reason for the change was not geopolitical strategy but simply a desire on the part of Kiribati for the entire country to be simultaneously on the same day at the same time. Prior to 1995, the western part of Kiribati, where Tarwana, the capital lies, would not just be two hours behind of eastern Kiribati (due to a 30° difference in longitude and corresponding difference in time) but would be a whole day and two hours behind the western zone because of a funny little line known as the International Date Line. While the world is divided into 24 time zones, there has to be a place where there is a difference in days (somewhere the day truly "starts") so the 180° line of longitude exactly one-half way around the planet from Greenwich, England and 0° longitude is where the International Date Line is located. Cross the line from the east to the west and a day is added. Cross from west to the east and a day is subtracted. Here's how it works. Let's say you fly from Japan to the United States. You leave Japan on Monday morning but as you cross the Pacific Ocean, the day gets later quickly as you cross time zones. In addition, once you cross the International Date Line, the day changes to Sunday. On the reverse trip from the U.S. to Japan, let's suppose you leave on Tuesday morning. Since you're traveling west the time advances slowly thanks to time zones but once you cross the International Date Line, it's suddenly Wednesday. The International Date Line is not a straight line, either. Since its beginning, it has zigzagged to avoid spitting apart countries into two days. It bends through the Bering Strait to avoid placing far northeastern Russia in a different day than the rest of the country. Unfortunately, tiny Kiribati was split. So, in 1995 they decided to move the International Date Line. Since the line is simply established by international agreement and there are not treaties or formal agreements associated with the line, the rest of the world followed Kiribati and moved the line. Some current maps have made the change and if you look at a recent map of timezones, you'll see the big panhandle zigzag which keeps Kiribati all within the same day. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998 has a new timezone map with the Kiribati change but no online maps of timezones have been updated yet.) Now eastern Kiribati and Hawaii, which are located in the same time zone, are now a whole day apart.