I’m still reeling from the one that beat it.
But more on that when I’ve gathered enough data to make it into a blog post.
Still, this probably would have made first place on just about any other day. Because I’m a nerd.
Traveling South-Southwest from Hawaii toward Antarctica, there’s a perfectly straight path which crosses the International Date Line seven times, going today-tomorrow-today-tomorrow-today-tomorrow-today-tomorrow.
And here’s that path:
I always get a little confused around things with the International Date Line, but technically, wouldn’t it actually be:
today – tomorrow (which is now today) – yesterday (which is also now today) – tomorrow (today) – today (also called yesterday, since you’re crossing from tomorrow, which is today) – today (which is tomorrow) – yesterday (today) – today – tomorrow?
I think it would. And even if it wouldn’t, can we not just agree on it being something like this, and move on before it becomes even more baffling?
Of course, if you are doing this trip, you wouldn’t really notice all of this crisscrossing and time difference stuff. Nothing actually happens when you go over this man-made, invisible line in the ocean, and really – much like taking an international flight -all you really need to know is the date at your destination.
Which is tomorrow.
And also today.