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Show Crossing the Date Line Crossing the equator has nothing to do with a change in time. It Is when crossing the International date line, which lies In the middle of the Pacific ocean and roughly corresponds to the one hundred and eightieth meridian, that the traveler trav-eler loses or gains a day, depending depend-ing on which way his vessel is moving. mov-ing. It is a purely arbitrary arrangement ar-rangement made necessary by our method of reckoning time. Sailing west across tiie date line, a day Is lust; crossing it eastward adds a Jay. |