How strange it feels to skip a whole day! One seasoned traveler, recalling her first trip across the international date line, confessed: “I could not understand where that missing day went.
When he steps off the airplane some 14 hours later, it will already be Thursday in Japan. Suppose that for his return flight, the Tokyo businessman leaves New York late Tuesday evening. Talk about a disorienting experience! Depending on which direction you travel, it’s like gaining or losing one day in an instant. In fact, crossing the international date line, an invisible line on the globe, means crossing an agreed upon boundary that separates calendar days. But distant cities are in different time zones.
Is it really possible to take a long trip and yet arrive before you leave? No, not really. If his flight departs at noon, then after flying nonstop nearly halfway around the world, he will land at his destination that same morning, seemingly earlier than he left. So would it surprise you to know that in a sense people travel through time every day? Consider the businessman from Tokyo who jets to New York for a meeting. MAN HAS LONG DREAMED OF TRAVELING through time to relive the past or to see the future.
