Samoa Skipping A Day

[looksgoodinred]

The tiny South Pacific island of Samoa will lose a day in 2011, in a move aimed at strengthening trade ties with Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

 

When the clock strikes midnight on 29 December, Samoa will skip 30 December and move straight to New Years Eve, 31 December.

 

The skip across the dateline comes 119 years after US traders persuaded Samoa to align its times with the US-controlled American Samoa as well as the US in order to enable trading links with California.

 

No longer the last place to see the sun set, but the first to see the sun rise. And all workers are being paid lost wages for the day. No birth, deaths, or anything bad can happen on December 30, 2011. :thumbs:

 

There has been some opposition to the move, both from employers complaining that they will have to pay their workers for a day

[BrianFaePerth]

The tiny South Pacific island of Samoa will lose a day in 2011, in a move aimed at strengthening trade ties with Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

 

When the clock strikes midnight on 29 December, Samoa will skip 30 December and move straight to New Years Eve, 31 December.

 

The skip across the dateline comes 119 years after US traders persuaded Samoa to align its times with the US-controlled American Samoa as well as the US in order to enable trading links with California.

 

No longer the last place to see the sun set, but the first to see the sun rise. And all workers are being paid lost wages for the day. No birth, deaths, or anything bad can happen on December 30, 2011. :thumbs:

 

There has been some opposition to the move, both from employers complaining that they will have to pay their workers for a day

[tup]

We'd be better off just losing the island altogether, nuke it, bunch of egg chasing heathens they are.

[Dandie1992]

Feel sorry for the Samoan who's birthday is on the 30th of December.

[tup]

Aye the pair of them will be burning, still they get paid for it.

[Crossbow]

We'd be better off just losing the island altogether, nuke it, bunch of egg chasing heathens they are.

 

They're not heathens - probably more religious and Christian than Scotland - they do chase eggs though - quite well as I recall.

[tup]

They're not heathens - probably more religious and Christian than Scotland - they do chase eggs though - quite well as I recall.

 

Then you have 'Western' Samoa, which is basically an island set aside for a massive game of Cowboys and Indians.