On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:42:44 PM UTC, Mike Collins wrote:
Gerald Kelleher wrote:
The International dateline smoothly meshes with the 24 hour day and the
calendar framework and it is simply lovely.

So ends this topic.


No it doesn’t. The international dateline has kinks, usually to avoid
different dates in the same country.
It’s not always on the same meridian.

180 E meets 180 W hence the 24 day closes out on a longitude meridian opposite the Prime meridian. The so-called kinks are just for the convenience of civil timekeeping but the correlation between 15 degrees of geographical separation are implied within the Lat/Long system including the Equatorial speed of 1037.5 miles per hour.

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As you are absolutely certain that the Earth turns once each 23 hours 56 minutes despite the history of timekeeping and location determination via longitude, you are like one of those Brexiteers who would rather cut their own throat than change their perspective but the worst part is that you already know what works but this is none of my concern.

The 24 hour system meets the calendar system at the date line and will do so with Mars as seamless Martian days elapse into each other just as it rotation follows the next. The next step is the Martian year/leap year which allows events to exist within the same format on our planet.

God is in inspiration while the devil is in mediocrity and those who strive for it.