All posts tagged "International Date Line"

At 6 pm local time on the International Date Line, Harold Camping of the Family Radio Network believed the Rapture was supposed to begin with a tremendous earthquake and destruction the likes of which humans have never seen. Rolling westward, it was set to hit Tokyo -- which has already witnessed its share of destruction this year -- at 6 pm local time, or 5 am ET. Since that's the most reasonable unreasonably early hour I was willing to get up, that's when this liveblog began.