2007-04-22 01:40:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Because for people moving daily across the line, the change of date too complicated for every day life...
2007-04-22 01:53:30 · answer #1 · answered by Scanie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically speaking it does go through land, the Antarctic. However because it is not permanently inhabited there is no real problem.
No country would want its people functioning their daily lives on two different dates. Imagine the chaos when some people in the country are on Sat. April 21 while their friend are already on Sunday. Imagine the government trying to run the country.
For reasons like the above the dateline moves around the countries so that each country will be all one time. So around the eastern edge of Russia it goes, keeps to the west of Alaska so the the State will be in sink with the rest of the U.S.
The islands of Kiribati, in the Pacific, use to have the dateline going right through the middle of them and ran into problems so they moved the dateline about 15-20 years ago. There are no treaties or any formal agreements about the IDL. It is just an international agreement so countries are free to make decisions about the dateline themselves.
2007-04-22 02:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by Critters 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't cross land (other than Antarctica) because it would be confusing if you lived in a town where half the town was on Wednesday and the other on Thursday. Everything would be pure chaos if the International Date Line crossed land.
2007-04-22 01:59:52 · answer #3 · answered by the world is my sea of gumdrops 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not really a question of "Can it" or "Can't it". It just doesn't (in most places) for simplicity. Since time is a different dimension than space, and the keeping of time is simply a way of understading and recording the dimension of time, the International Date Line was created as a way to separate days, but it's not "real" in any sense - kind of like the border of a state or country.
2007-04-22 02:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by King Nitz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An imaginary line for the period of the Pacific Ocean greater or less comparable to one hundred eighty° longitude, to the east of which, by employing international contract, the calendar date is at some point earlier than to the west.
2016-10-13 04:31:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does cross land. Antarctica.
2007-04-22 01:48:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be a bit impractical. Imagine that it's Saturday at your house and Sunday across the street
2007-04-22 02:11:44 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋