[release]Just this once, Samoa is making Dec. 30 disappear.
It's the key step in the Pacific island nation's plan to move from the eastern to the western side of the International Date Line and mesh its work week with two of its primary trading partners, New Zealand and Australia. The New Zealand territory of Tokelau is making the switch as well.
"In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week," Stuff.co.nz quoted Samoan Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sailele as saying. "While it's Friday here, it's Saturday in New Zealand, and when we're at church Sunday, they're already conducting business in Sydney and Brisbane."
Samoa will go directly from 11:59 p.m. Thursday, through midnight to 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
"It hasn't been controversial," the editor of the Samoa Observer, Mata'afa Lesa, told me today. (Yes, definitely still today.) "People are realizing when they sleep tomorrow night, they'll wake up on Saturday."
Hotel guests won't have to pay for an extra night, but employers will be required to pay workers for Friday. "For the business community, it's very difficult," Lesa said, "They'll be paying for a day that doesn't exist."
As for folks born on Dec. 30 ... well, this year they're in the same boat as Feb. 29 birthday babies.
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[I]Samoa is on the eastern side of the International Date Line ... until Thursday night.[/I]
American Samoa, 100 miles to the east, will not be making the switch. All this means that Samoa and Tokelau will be among the first places in the world to see each day's sunrise. (Stuff.co.nz says the "first light honors" will belong to Fakaofo in Tokelau, although Kiribati and Antarctica also have claims on the title.) Meanwhile, American Samoa will become known as the last place to see each day's sunset. And if you want to celebrate your birthday or anniversary (or New Year's Eve, for that matter) two days in a row, you can just make the hourlong flight from Samoa to American Samoa.
This isn't the first step taken by the Samoan government to bring itself more in line with its bigger Pacific neighbors. Two years ago, drivers were ordered to switch from right-side to left-side driving — to reduce the cost of converting cars brought in from Australia and New Zealand.
It's also not the first time Samoa has switched sides on the calendar: Back in 1892, Samoans gained an extra day when they went from the west side of the imaginary Date Line to the east side. The king made the switch to please U.S. traders — and to celebrate, he gave his subjects a double dose of the Fourth of July that year.[/release]
Source: [url=http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9772352-samoa-drops-friday-from-calendar]MSNBC[/url]
[B][I]THURSDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKER[/I][/B]
Little did they know, they were doing this to confuse people who were religious. Since the people would forget what day was sunday.
[QUOTE=Nikota;33939511]Little did they know, they were doing this to confuse people who were religious. Since the people would forget what day was sunday.[/QUOTE]
Thus the country of Samoa descended in to chaos
I knew people hated rebecca black, But this is taking it too far.
Title made me think they were changing to six-day weeks
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;33939553]I knew people hated rebecca black, But this is taking it too far.[/QUOTE]
Let's replace Friday with Rebeccaday!
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;33939569]What the hell? Why?[/QUOTE]
[quote]Just this once, Samoa is making Dec. 30 disappear.
It's the key step in the Pacific island nation's plan to move from the eastern to the western side of the International Date Line and mesh its work week with two of its primary trading partners,[/quote]
Two lines into the article.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;33939569]What the hell? Why?[/QUOTE]
did you even bother to read? seriously the article isn't that big.
sensationalist headline
Funny story, an island that lies between today and tomorrow
[QUOTE=lapsus_;33939658]Funny story, an island that lies between today and tomorrow[/QUOTE]
It sounds like a bad plot for a movie
where's the source
[QUOTE=MR-X;33939545]Thus the country of Samoa descended in to chaos[/QUOTE]
Like france in the 1800's :v:
[QUOTE=triFeral;33939770]where's the source[/QUOTE]
[url]http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9772352-samoa-drops-friday-from-calendar[/url]
Better title would be "removes this Friday from the calendar"
[QUOTE=triFeral;33939770]where's the source[/QUOTE]
Sorry, forgot it. Just added.
woo samoans represent. most obese country in the world!
but if they are removing friday, when will they get down?
They're gonna miss my birthday. :(
I'm not going to lie, my first thought was the abolishment of Friday in favour of Thursday 2 or Proto-Saturday
[QUOTE=MR-X;33939545]Thus the country of Samoa descended in to chaos[/QUOTE]
[B][I]CHAOS! MADNESS! PANDEMONIUM!!! RAINING CATS AND DOGS!!![/I][/B]
[QUOTE=Soldier32;33940290]woo samoans represent. most obese country in the world![/QUOTE]
FP country icon says you are in american Samoa. Apia alone kicks your ass.
FUCK FRIDAY, SAMOA IS GOING INTO THE FUTURE
Samoa.
The first nation to time travel.
Educational west side story.
If NZ and Australia are their biggest trading partners, and the time difference was screwing with it that bad, I don't see why they wouldn't. They are situated in a place where they could do it, and it's a hell of a creative way to solve the issue. Neat.
You spelled calendar wrong
They should've removed monday, everyone hates monday.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;33944155]Samoa.
The first nation to time travel.[/QUOTE]
Actually it isn't. Another country did this before.
Although it [I]might[/I] have been Samoa that time as well. I can't remember.
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;33939553]I knew people hated rebecca black, But this is taking it too far.[/QUOTE]
Thursday, Thursday
Gotta get down on Thursday
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