The international date line is the "line" that runs through the middle of the Pacific Ocean about 180 degrees longitude from the North Pole to the South Pole. It's located halfway around the world ...

A spokesman for Google said only that the company’s maps of the date line had been updated since 2020. And a data systems engineer at PacIOOS said that the group’s version was not a gold standard.

Established in 1884, the line actually has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates to observe, according to NOAA. International date line zig zags through Pacific.

See the map Since countries are free to choose which date to observe, that explains why the international date line actually zig zigs — instead of being a straight line from pole to pole ...

West of the line and you've moved forward a day. Established in 1884, the line actually has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates to observe, according to NOAA.