I like the story of how the portuguese sailed east, and the spanish sailed west, and by the time they met each other (Macau trading with Manila?) there was a da

I like the story of how the portuguese sailed east, and the spanish sailed west, and by the time they met each other (Macau trading with Manila?) there was a day dislocation between the two empires. Nowadays we have timezones and an International Date Line* to solve the underlying issue, but back then it seems as if no one was surprised that calendars would be off by certain numbers of days between ports, and merely took it in stride. Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adoption_dates_of_the_Gregorian_calendar_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adoption_dates_of_the_... * shout out to Kiribati (UTC+14)! I'd like to think the bronze age danes rocked their string skirts in much the same way the Kiribati do their "grass" [pandanus] ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUhs1TdHMt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUhs1TdHMt0