Whistleblower Protection Laws for Healthcare Workers. Several federal and state laws prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who report practices by employers that threaten public health and safety, or violate the law.
The international date line is an imaginary north-south line drawn through the middle of the Pacific Ocean about half way around the world, close to the 180 degrees of longitude from the Prime Meridian, which cuts through Greenwich, England.
The nautical date line, not the same as the IDL, is a de jure construction determined by international agreement. It is the result of the 1917 Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, which recommended that all ships, both military and civilian, adopt hourly standard time zones on the high seas.