New Britain herald., 1924-07-15

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 Where shall Inc Day Iiegin,i
 Consider how this makes necessary an arbitrary day line, just as going rom New York 10 Chicago makes necessary an arbitrary hour line,
 "ll is midnight on the opposite side Of tho globe when il is noon where you are, Suppose yon are in Wash lnelon al onp minute Of midday on Thursday, Al your anlip0dcs, roughly RRngoon, Rurmn, II is one minute of midnight, Thursday, As your watch passes the noon hour in Washington it become one minute past midnight in Rangoon--ihat is, ihs first minute of new day for that place
 Now imagine yourself nt Washlng- lon and consider that, by some magic means, you travelled simultaneously east 10 the antipOdes point, ut Ran- goon. changing your watch one hour for evory To degrees. because every l5 degrees marks an hour line, should you thus travel eastward you would move the hands forward. hour by hcur, until you approached RanGoon Ut one minute of midnight-thc last minute of the day you started. Now take the imaginary journey westward moving your watch hands backward that Is to II, 10, 9 o'clock, and so on, and you would approach Rangoon at one minute after midnight -- the You would find Rangoon in ihe anomalous situation Of being equally entitled to two times, from the point of view, 2i hours apart.
 Ut SO happens that our time ac- tually is based on the Greenwich Meridian. and the antipodes meridian of the Greenwich Longitudinal line is in the middle of the Pacific. That .hep becomes the logical adjustment irc, and so has been designated the date line. Incidentally. day in mid-ocean confuscs | ,rly the few people who cross this inc in steamers. And they have plenty of time to figure out how they est, or gained. a day.
 Where New Days Tick Off
 New days are born, then, along he line in space exactly on the op- | ,osite side of the earth from the sun | when the date line passes. The first | ccond of Monday is tickcd off be- 1, ween the Samoan and Fiji Islands as l he master clock at Greenwich, ticks | he first second past noon on Sunday. | his is when the first second after : | clock Sunday morning is registered | | New York, Philadelphia and Wash igton, the first second after 6 o'clock ! m. in St. Louis and Chicago, and | he first second after 1 o'clock q. in | San Francisco and Los Angeles.
 When if is noon Sunday in st. oUis it is Monday over q quarter of ne world and Sunday over three- ,mrters.
 At o'clock sunday evening, hen Washingtonians are eating their vening meals, or at o'clock D. m. hen san FranciScans are stolIing in 10 parks the world is evenly divided otween Sunday and Monday. At [ clock Monday morning in Washing ,n when the first hammers of tho eek arc beginning to pound, Sunday giving it's last gasp in the middle of lc Pacific ocean. An instant later, I few feet to the west, the infant tuesday is born.'