NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Date Line and Kiribati
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Mar 11, 23:36 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Mar 11, 23:36 EST
Thanks, Jim. The web page by Robert H van Gent on the "History of the
International Date Line" which you linked http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm is
very nice. Looking through the list archives, I see that this was developed
based in part on some posts on this list five years ago. I missed it
on my last pass through the archive just a few days ago.
He has tried to draw a "corrected" IDL based on the Kiribati date choice. I
don't think that's necessarily the way to go. I don't think the "sea" boundaries
of Kiribati are definitive in any sense. Who needs an International Date Line in
2005? Does it have any practical application that anyone can think of?
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
