The International Date Line (IDL) is one of the weirdest things on the map—it’s not a straight line at all! It zigzags to avoid splitting countries, islands, and even some communities into different ...

That squiggly line through the Pacific where days begin and end has no legal authority and technically doesn’t exist. By Mike Ives The writer, who lives in South Korea, has reported from Kiribati, a ...

Each day on Earth lasts approximately 24 hours. But on New Year’s Eve, it takes a little bit longer than that to wrap up the last day of the year and ring in the new one. That’s because of a quirk of ...