A clock on a remote Pacific island strikes midnight 24 hours ... The short answer is that Mondays become Tuesdays at the international date line, a boundary that runs through the Pacific Ocean.

they will arrive at Wake Island on June 26. Although the traveler seems to move backward or forward in time, there's no physics-defying magic going on here. The international date line is based on ...

This means the island nation of Kiribati is a ... of water, with the international date line running midway between them. Follow a team of AP journalists as they travel through the Arctic Circle ...

The date line switch means that families split between the island nation and Australia ... line drawn by mapmakers is not mandated by any international body. By tradition, it runs roughly through ...

The Diomede Islands are separated by the International Date Line which passes through the Pacific Ocean and marks the boundary between one calendar day and the next. It means the island of Big ...

Countries are free to decide which side of the international date line they want to be on—resulting in a line that zigs and zags its way between the ... are Kiritimati Island and a string ...

The date line switch means that families split between the island nation and Australia ... line drawn by mapmakers is not mandated by any international body. By tradition, it runs roughly through ...

The island group was eventually divided between Germany and the United ... the entire Samoan archipelago was on the same side of the international date line – to the east. So it was the last ...

Separated by the International Date Line ... aptly called "Tomorrow Island." While the two are close in distance, in terms of time, there is almost a day difference between them.

This means the island nation of Kiribati is a day ahead of American Samoa, despite being hundreds of miles farther east. The international date line also marks the border between Russia and the ...