The longer answer is that no international rules govern the location of the date line, and its exact coordinates depend on the shifting whims of governments. Maps ... site of the world’s prime ...

That’s because of a quirk of the international date line, the official starting and ending point of each day. The idea of the date line was introduced at a conference in 1884 in which the world ...

The international ... way around the world, close to the 180 degrees of longitude from the Prime Meridian, which cuts through Greenwich, England. The date line shown on most maps is the one ...