Subject: Re: Border with greatest time difference<br/>
Date: Oct 09, 2002 @ 02:55<br/>
Author: kbajoras (&quot;kbajoras&quot; &lt;kbajoras@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-721474995">That&#39;s probably the biggest land border time differemce. However you <br/>
get the craziest differences when you get across the International <br/>
Date Line. 25 hours in some cases. Let&#39;s say you sailed the few km <br/>
between the two little islands separated by USRU (the Diomedes, I <br/>
think?). Geographically they&#39;re in the -11 zone, but politically you <br/>
would be going from -9 in Alaska to +12 in Russia.<br/>
Or because the 12 oclock zone is there, you get the most dramatic <br/>
differences between geographical and political time. For example <br/>
westernmost Aleutians should be +12, but they&#39;re -10. Eaternmost <br/>
Russia, geo: -12, pol:+12. TONGA geographically in -12, politically <br/>
in +13!!!! Chatham Islands, geo: -12, pol:+12 3/4!! Wallis islands -<br/>
12/+12... Also notice that the dateline curves in many places. While <br/>
it is clear that it is so, so that it doesn&#39;t cross any land, I don&#39;t <br/>
see how that ties in with the whole concept of setting the time zones <br/>
if the date line messes them up by as much as 24 hr!</div>