Show Crossing Crola th the D Oat Date U Lin Crossing the equator has haa nothing to do with a change chanze in time It Is la when crossing the international date data line which lies In the middle of the Pacific ocean and roughly corresponds to the one hundred and eightieth meridian that the traveler trav tsar eler des loses or gains galDI a day dl depending depend tag ing on which way his hi vessel is JI mor- mor fag ing It Is U a purely arbitrary as ar- r- r made necessary by our method of reckoning time Salting Sailing west across the date line Hoe a day Is U lost i crossing It eastward adds a I day 1 |