Samoans will be the first to see the NEW YEAR

Samoa has always been on the wrong side of the international date line..
with their date/time related to the USA side of the international dateline..
but on Thursday, at Midnight they went straight into Saturday..
missing out on Friday entirely...

anyone with a Friday birthday...
either missed out completely.. lol
or gained a year without actually having a birthday.. lol

Now they can phone New Zealand or Australia and be on the same day... lol

LEE

Also noted:
Samoan seven day adventists are now debating whether to have Saturday or sunday as the sabbath...

Saturday was their sabbath but now that they have missed a day
saturday is really Sunday...

For Tourists:
Samoa was also the last place on earth to see the sun go down..

Now its the First place to see the Sun come Up...

LEE

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And they saw it 3 times, lucky bastards.

donn wrote:And they saw it 3 times, lucky bastards.

are You referring to My pic that somehow come up 3 times Don?

I fixed that...

LEE

There's now going to be a few Samoans who feel a bit ripped off Lee

i cant see what all the fuss is about, the sun never sets on the earth, there for who can say where is the first or last point of a given time? time is a victorian concept, and it nails us all quite firmly to the rat race!

Lets get a bit of an astrophysics debate started. Date lines, time and sunsets get much more involved than tourism.

Maybe we could go for the artistic or poetic side of the situation. Sunsets and time are great subjects.

What about the east Kirabati their east of Samoa and on our date

vwjon wrote:time is a victorian concept, and it nails us all quite firmly to the rat race!

What the ?? have you forgotten about history, physics, philosphy, religion etc etc

Did you know that the earth is really flat? ... in a round way...

Imac wrote:What about the east Kirabati their east of Samoa and on our date

looking at My map , looks like Somoa will be the first country to see the new day and the new year...
called Western Samoa in US..
slightly East of Fiji.....

not that there is anything wrong with that.... 😂

enderbury island belongs to Kiribati but is on the other side of the date line..

lots of islands out there..

Lee


PS: I'm not an expert on this... just what I've read mainly.. IMHO.

Off topic a bit, we often holiday around Byron Bay and live
on Lord Howe Island and laugh at all the signs in Byron.

"Byron Bay the easterly most point of Australia"
(Scuse me mainland that should be!)

So Lord Howe Island is not Australian, nor is if further east, we are in the same state and way further east, that will get some Byron people going and there is some New Year trivia for everyone!

First place in NSW to see the sun rise and great the New Year, Lord Howe Island! Happy New Year, I'm off to work.