Just to show how complicated the subject of timezones really is, here
are a couple of interesting quotes from the wikipedia article on
International Date Line
Two uninhabited atolls, Howland Island and Baker Island, just
north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean (and ships
at sea between 172.5W and 180) have the latest time on Earth
of UTC-12 hours. The IDL circumscribes Kiribati by swinging
far to the east, almost reaching the 150 meridian. Kiribati's
easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii,
have the most advanced time on Earth, UTC+14 hours. ...
For the two hours between 10:00 and 11:59 (UTC) each day,
three different days are observed at the same time in different
places. For example, at UTC time Thursday 10:15, it is
Wednesday 23:15 in American Samoa, (UTC-11), and Friday 00:15
in Kiritimati (UTC+14). For the first hour (UTC 10:00-10:59),
this is true for both inhabited and uninhabited territories,
but during the second hour (UTC 11:00-11:59) it is only true in
an uninhabited maritime time zone twelve hours behind UTC
(UTC-12).
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