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Samoans will be the first to see the NEW YEAR
68AutoBug - December 31st, 2011 at 12:17 PM

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

68AutoBug - December 31st, 2011 at 12:42 PM

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

66deluxe - December 31st, 2011 at 01:10 PM

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donn - December 31st, 2011 at 01:57 PM

And they saw it 3 times, lucky bastards.

68AutoBug - December 31st, 2011 at 02:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by donn
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

donn - December 31st, 2011 at 02:03 PM

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

vwjon - December 31st, 2011 at 02:26 PM

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!

helbus - December 31st, 2011 at 03:07 PM

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.

Imac - December 31st, 2011 at 04:29 PM

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

VW-VARIANT-L - December 31st, 2011 at 05:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by vwjon
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

bajachris88 - December 31st, 2011 at 05:22 PM

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

68AutoBug - January 1st, 2012 at 01:25 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Imac
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.... :lol:

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.

DubbyFan - January 1st, 2012 at 06:34 AM

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.