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No 30 December 2011 for Samoa

  • 30-12-2011 3:04am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377




     

    Tokelau is set to join Samoa in taking a dateline leap on 29 December
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    Samoa and Tokelau are set to skip a day and jump across the international dateline to align with trade partners.

    When the clock strikes midnight (10:00 GMT Friday) as 29 December ends, Samoa and Tokelau will fast-forward to 31 December, missing out on 30 December.

    Samoa announced the decision in May in a bid to improve ties with major trade partners Australia and New Zealand.

    Neighbouring Tokelau decided to follow suit in October.

    The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction. Then, it transferred to the same side of the international date line as the United States, in an effort to aid trade.

    But New Zealand and Australia have become increasingly valuable trade partners for the country.

    "In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week," Samoan Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi previously said.

    "While it's Friday here, it's Saturday in New Zealand, and when we're at church on Sunday, they're already conducting business in Sydney and Brisbane."

    He added that Samoa also does a lot of business with China and Singapore and the dateline change will make commerce with the region "far, far easier".

    Samoa is located approximately halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and has a population of 180,000 people. Local time up to now has been 21 hours behind Sydney. From 31 December it will be three hours ahead.

    Tokelau is a tiny New Zealand-administered territory of three islands. It lies to the north of Fiji, approximately half-way between Hawaii and the Australian coast. Local time is currently 23 hours behind Wellington time.

    Rebecca Black is said to be very confused and disappointed with the decision.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Expect the Irish government to follow suit and do away with a week, cut backs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Expect the Irish government to follow suit and do away with a week, cut backs.
    I think we should adopt CET


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Anyone being paid holidays will get an extra one day paid for and banks will pay the extra day's interest on any savings but not charge on any loans, according to a piece on this on radio last night.
    Definitely none of that happening here.

    As for CET, no thanks chuckles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Aww, some people who were born on the 30th December aren't going to have a good birthday this year. Now they'll feel like those who were born on the 29th February.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    It's my birthday.
    It's already crap enough that you get joined xmas and birthday gifts, and that no one wants to go out for your birthday because new years eve is the next day, never mind that it's the day Saddam Hussein was executed, but now this??
    Ffs


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Do you live in Samoa???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    efb wrote: »
    Do you live in Samoa???

    Yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Yes.

    Ha ha!


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Didn't one of the other Pacific islands jump the dateline just to be the first to celebrate the new millennium?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    Less nights out between Stephens and New Years. It's a holiday for the liver so!!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    The Samoans recently changed from driving on the right to the left so they could import Aus/Nz 2nd hand cars cheaper rather than having to ship in LHD cars from the US to their tiny islands in the middle of the pacific. Their PM wants to change the countries flag also!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭LightningBolt


    It's my birthday.
    It's already crap enough that you get joined xmas and birthday gifts, and that no one wants to go out for your birthday because new years eve is the next day, never mind that it's the day Saddam Hussein was executed, but now this??
    Ffs


    Your birthday was yesterday, quit moaning.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    It's my birthday.
    It's already crap enough that you get joined xmas and birthday gifts, and that no one wants to go out for your birthday because new years eve is the next day, never mind that it's the day Saddam Hussein was executed, but now this??
    Ffs

    Happy Birthday.

    People are very self involved, surprised it has got this far past your post without anyone wishing you well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    They got bored of being a day behind their main trading partners and have jumped across the international date line!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
    Samoa and Tokelau have skipped a day - and jumped westwards across the international dateline - to align with trade partners.

    As the clock struck midnight (10:00 GMT Friday) as 29 December ended, Samoa and Tokelau fast-forwarded to 31 December, missing out on 30 December entirely.

    Samoa announced the decision in May in a bid to improve ties with major trade partners Australia and New Zealand.

    Neighbouring Tokelau decided to follow suit in October.

    The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction. Then, it transferred to the same side of the international date line as the United States, in an effort to aid trade.

    I like this idea only I'd like to see us move the clocks back to 2001 and not join the euro. :p


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    yeah, read about it yesterday. Handy thing is they still get paid for the Friday that gets skipped today.

    bastids! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    There is another thread about it

    I wonder what this will do for the Samoans zodiac sign.

    There are some Samoans who are going to wake up with a radically different personality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Happy Birthday Son!
    Joke!


    /trolldad


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    So there you have it. Time travel IS possible!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    So there you have it. Time travel IS possible!
    But we already know how to go forward in time :(


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    So they skip a day and get the extra day from the leap year, seems a bit of a waste of time to me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Happy NYE Samoa


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