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प्रश्न
Give a reason the international date line deviates and goes zig-zag near some Islands in the Pacific ocean.
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उत्तर
IDL is not a straight line, but it deviates in order to classify some scattered Islands in a particular division of Hemispheres so that the day and time can be calculated according to the line, as the natural position of the Islands is haphazard.
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