Samoa skips from last to first country to see the sun

[lafinjack]

Comments

[the_laugh]

...Neat?

[free_spoons]

I love that this will be the second time they've time traveled :D

[othellia]

A part of me doesn't want Samoa to leave our little cluster of "late to the party" time zone islands, ngl. It's like it's dumping us for the rest of Western Polynesia.

[musikologie]

This. Stay with the cool islands, Samoa!

[rex_dart]

I'm gonna say upgrade. This makes me want to go there.

[romp]

That's a whole lot of stuff I've never thought about before. I had no idea the date line could be moved!

[lafinjack]

I was thinking the same thing, but then figured that the dateline itself isn't set by some international body, but just follows what the countries on the edges set their times at.

[brewsternorth]

I hadn't appreciated until recently that Kiribati had decided to move its dateline location so the entire archipelago was on the same time-zone rather than being split down the middle.

It's not been without controversy, since the finicking about with the dateline seems to be done at the national level rather than the international one (wonder how the aviation industry copes with flightplans that overfly the changed date line?)