So im at the North Pole (or South Pole), which ive marked with a flag - my GPS tells me the direction of London, so then i scrape in the snow the line of the Greenwich meridian.
then i walk 10 feet from the pole, with my toe behind the meridian (standing 'West' of the meridian) and then walk in a circle 'East'
it takes a minute or two (in all my padded insulation) and im back at the meridian again
this is the international dateline, ive passed through all of the international time zones in the last few minutes
so that means ive now moved backwards a day!
i do this 7 times and ive moved backwards in time a week -
do this for an hour or so and i could be back from my polar expedition before ive begun!
so, just in case, before i leave i run anticlockwise exactly the same amount of times as ive run clockwise so i dont end up meeting myself going the other way on that long treck back home
lol idk, but i always think of weird stuff like this too
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No you are distance travelling
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lol idk, but i always think of weird stuff like this too
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No, of course not. Time marches on, inexorably forward. All you are doing is passing through an arbitrary time zone established merely so that we could say dawn always occurred at roughly the same time across the globe.
There is also a fatal flaw in your logic, because even though you may have passed the Intl date line, one you cross it again you cease moving backwards, and now jump immediately back forward again.
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No time zones are just there to establish days etc, the world is at the same point if you get me e.g. if someone died when you were at the north pole, they’d still be dead when you went forward or back a day, if you were travelling and you went back they would be alive again.
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Woah !!!!! I dont think so but you’d probably get cold feet.
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Tried it my self
Lotsa flaws in your question here. The date line does not at all go through London, it goes through the Bering Strait between the US and Russia. Also, going east you don’t go back in time, you go forward. If your time is 05.00 where you are, it’s 06.00 in the time zone East of you (with a few exceptions). But, the way it works is that on the date line you go back a day. If you’re in Alaska at 05.00 on the 10th of July, on the other side of the date line it’s 04.00 on the 11th of July. Going east it will be later and later and later, but then all of a sudden it’ll be yesterday again.
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You will be walking backwards and forwards between two days, that’s all. The international dateline is between Alaska and Russia, like someone already said. If you go west of the line, you will go earlier in time, all the way to "yesterday", but as soon as you cross the line again, the time jumps back to the next day.
For example, you live just west of the line. It’s Monday 1am, you suddenly wake up and realise that you don’t feel like going to work today. So you travel west, and with each time zone you cross, the time goes back 1hr. You carry on going west, where it is now Sunday. Finally, you approach the familiar line again from the east, thinking that it will launch you into Saturday. But you’re wrong, as soon as you cross the line it will be Monday morning again :-p
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has the time on your watch moved forward as it always did? of course it did. second by second, minute by minute.
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