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Show World Date Line Only Matter of Convenience Custom inul I lip convenience of tho iul)lic roculntes the lnternntlonal dnte line, us It does tlie rllvlalons between tlie time belts In the Dnlted .States. These do not follow merld-inns. merld-inns. The time bells In the United States lire regulated by the Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission, hut the Knr Kast lias never had a conference, confer-ence, International or local, to estab llsh the date line. It would be Inconvenient, for example, ex-ample, for some of tlie FIJI Islands to hnvo n different day than Auft tralia or New Zealand, or to havV"'-the havV"'-the day of the week differ from one. island to another. Until recently map makers differed on the location of the International date line. A few years nco Prof. George Davidson of the University of California, formerly of the United States const nnd geodetic survey, conducted an extensive correspondence correspond-ence with the regions approximately under the date line to see what line was actually recognized by the people peo-ple who lived there. lie drew a line on the map as a result of his Investigation In-vestigation and practically all cartographers car-tographers follow It. |