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Just bought a globe. This passage was in the manual:

Only at the stroke of midnight on the international date line is a day the same all over the world. A moment later, there are two days going on at the same time. When Tuesday has arrived at the international date line, it is still Monday over the rest of the world. The new day moves westward.
When a day is six hours old, it has traveled one-quarter of the way around the world. Then one-quarter of the world is having Tuesday and the other three-quarters are having Monday. Six hours later, the new day is half way around the world and in another six hours, three-quarters of the way. Finally, it approaches the date line again and another new day, Wednesday, is born.

It makes my head hurt when I think about stuff like this.

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