i learned about the international date line when i read it at age 12. the significant event was that he gained a day and won the race, despite the person following him and bothering him all the time

it fairly is the worldwide Date Line which, of direction, runs north and south in the Pacific purely west of Hawaii. once you pass it heading west to, say, Japan, you “upload” an afternoon (which skill you pass from Wed to Thursday). once you return decrease back from Japan to the U.S. you “subtract” an afternoon (returned, going from Sunday to Saturday). So, in many cases, inspite of long flights, coming homestead you may “land earlier you took off.” via fact the occasion in “worldwide” went east around the date line, it fairly is whilst they won the day. It has no longer something to do, by the way, with how some distance they traveled. purely crossing the dateline. by the way, between the awesome issues approximately Jules Verne and H.G. Wells is how nicely researched they’re in terms of the technology of their technology fiction.

that there might be feelings underneath the stiff british upper lip.