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# Someone stole a day
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/travel-someone-stole-a-day/
- Published: 2018-04-18T23:37:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-01T13:11:26.000Z
- Author: Matt
- Tags: Travel, Blog

It's a funny thing. Someone stole a day.

My plane took off from Vancouver on Tuesday night - flew for fifteen hours, and I touched down in Sydney on Thursday morning.

The International Date Line is a strange, arbitrary line where one side is Monday and the other is Tuesday. I looked it up. It's not straight. I'll say so, it's so crooked, it stole a day from me.

[If you look it up, you'll see it wiggles its way through the middle of the Pacific Ocean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%5FDate%5FLine?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), dodging island groups and wending its way from pole to pole.

I'd imagine it is quite carefully managed, it's OK to have two nations separated by a day, but I'm sure you wouldn't want your bathroom on Thursday and your kitchen on Friday.

As my flight made its way to Sydney, I tried to work out if there was any advantage, any hack I could use to make the date change more advantageous.

However, I did all that thinking on Wednesday - and now it's been stolen.