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Was this to move to the other side of the dateline or something?
by bigmattystyles 4y ago
Was this to move to the other side of the dateline or something?
- adjagu 4y agoYes. The time change, officially decided in June, is meant to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners; it moves the islands’ work days further from the United States, which dominated its economy in the past. [0] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220809080548/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/asia/samoa-to-skip-friday-and-switch-time-zones.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220809080548/https://www.nytim...