International Date Line | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
International Date Line


00:00:23 1 Geography
00:00:32 1.1 Description
00:03:51 1.2 Circumnavigating the globe
00:04:39 1.3 Facts dependent on the IDL
00:06:56 2 De facto and de jure date lines
00:08:55 2.1 Cartographic practice and convention
00:10:59 3 Historical alterations
00:11:09 3.1 Philippines (1521 and 1844)
00:12:40 3.2 Alaska (1740s and 1867)
00:14:34 3.3 Samoan Islands and Tokelau (1892 and 2011)
00:16:02 3.4 Kwajalein (c. 1945 and 1993)
00:17:07 3.5 Eastern Kiribati (1994)
00:18:32 4 Date lines according to religious principles
00:18:43 4.1 Christianity
00:21:20 4.2 Islam
00:22:00 4.3 Judaism
00:23:29 5 Cultural references and traditions
00:23:39 5.1 iThe Island of the Day Before/i
00:24:11 5.2 iAround the World in Eighty Days/i
00:26:30 5.3 Line-crossing ceremonies relating to the IDL
00:26:54 6 Mathematical description



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The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of demarcation on the surface of Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups.