Universal World Time

Strong, Helen M.; Davidson, G.

doi:10.2307/209317

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“…But higher education is about when and how this information is generated and manipulated, and why things work the way they do, and ever since the days of Magellan (Strong, 1935;Howse, 1997), advancements in transportation and communications have magnified the need for familiarity with and understanding of the model of time now called the standard time system as a useful component of modern geographic literacy (Stansfield, 2002). Conceptual errors may interfere with this objective.…”

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Midnight at the IDL: student confusion and textbook error

Uhlik

2004

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Students completing a time calculation exercise identified the International Date Line (IDL) as a conceptual source of confusion and poor performance. From the early 1950s to the present, various geography textbooks have promulgated misstatements involving the occurrence of midnight at the IDL. This condition's persistence and ubiquity manifests a widespread fundamental misunderstanding, providing an opportunity to (a) illuminate the low level of student success when solving an IDL-influenced problem, (b) present an overview of textbook error, (c) explore how the evolution of the standard time system led to IDL errors in geography textbooks, and (d) offer proof dispelling these misconceptions.

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Midnight at the IDL: student confusion and textbook error

Uhlik

2004

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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