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  • 29-12-2011 1:21pm
    #1
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    ...in Samoa

    No Friday 30th December in Samoa
    At midnight on Thursday December 29, Samoa's calendar will leap straight to Saturday December 31, as it redraws the dateline to move to the western side after more than a century on the east. The country will go from being the last place in the world to see sunset to one of the first to see the sunrise.

    seems they are moving to the other side of the world :D:D:D

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/samoa/8980665/Samoa-prepares-to-skip-Dec-30.html


Comments

  • #2
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Eh, what if it was your birthday on the 30th?


  • #3
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,201 ✭✭✭amacca


    timezones and international datelines etc etc always confuse me terribly


    that's why I bear Samoa no ill will on this one ...as long as they agree to have their sh1t sorted before I make it out there and provide me with a good "local time" announcement on the plane before it lands and I make my grand entrance.


  • #4
    bambera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bambera


    I haven't done the maths, but could they not just skip 29th of February next instead?


  • #5
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Eh, what if it was your birthday on the 30th?

    Your head explodes I believe.


  • #6
    Glico Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Your head explodes I believe.

    I heard that it starts the Benjamin Button process


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  • #7
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,282 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Eh, what if it was your birthday on the 30th?

    Well, you won't be another year older.


  • #8
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    It's just a practical arrangement to facilitate trade with Australia and New Zealand. Some of the local god-botherers say they won't accept the decision, but that's their prerogative. If those islands had remained in their original idyllic state, the people there would just go by the rising and setting sun and it's unlikely that they'd name their months after some imaginary gods and emperors in Rome and ancient Greece.


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