I wonder how the discovery of the need of this International Date Line influence not just navigation and timekeeping, but also the understanding of experience o

I wonder how the discovery of the need of this International Date Line influence not just navigation and timekeeping, but also the understanding of experience of the flow of time, did it perhaps influence the Englightment, as it just occured before, or was it the age of discovery of the Americas and the Pacific? Difficult to seperate. A Romanian girl called Iliana/Ilana from Galati or Brailia I was in love with long ago recommended me Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day before when I met her in Taize. Sadly I lost her contact data and her lastname, forever lost in the day before.