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Posted: March 20 2007 at 11:35am | IP Logged Quote momwise

Glory be to God, but this is thrilling!!The sunrise for March 21st, the Equinox (the day when every spot on earth has 12 equal hours of day and night) is about to occur in Fiji at the Internat'l dateline.

If you check in here in the next couple of hours you can actually see this happening:Earth View. Click on the furthest point East on the map to zoom in and then click in again to zoom in a little more and you will see the sun actually rising tomorrow morning, the Equinox . Too bad the Aussies are still asleep .

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Posted: March 20 2007 at 11:49am | IP Logged Quote momwise

Just one clarification...if you go to the furthest east point on the map it will take you to the Western hemisphere where the sun is just rising for today, the 20th. So click around until you see the Longitude reading at the top say 175-180 deg. E.

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Posted: March 20 2007 at 4:17pm | IP Logged Quote Jen L.

Thanks Gwen - I'm going to try it now...

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