Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Ari Laakso shields his eyes from the midnight sun while approaching the American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, ...

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APIA, Samoa - The weekend came sooner than usual for the tiny South Pacific island nation of Samoa. When the clock struck midnight Thursday, the country skipped over Friday and moved 24 hours ahead — ...

The International Date Line (IDL) is one of the weirdest things on the map—it’s not a straight line at all! It zigzags to avoid splitting countries, islands, and even some communities into different ...

That squiggly line through the Pacific where days begin and end has no legal authority and technically doesn’t exist. By Mike Ives The writer, who lives in South Korea, has reported from Kiribati, a ...

The international date line is an imaginary line that runs north-south across the Pacific Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A bill written by the Prime Minister of Samoa's Cabinet and approved by its Parliament will soon send Samoa to the other side of the International Date Line, an imaginary line that defines when one ...

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