eli5: why isn’t the international date line a straight line?

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For the convenience of the countries/islands that would fall on the line. If you look at the map, it zigzags around land in the ocean. It’d be really inconvenient to live on an island in the pacific where it’s one day on one half and a day earlier/ later on the other or a group of islands on different days

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