Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th

ocean_soul writes "Starting January 1, 2012 Samoa and Tokelau will be in time zone +13 instead of -11. This means there will be no December 30, 2011 in these countries. The decision to switch time zone was based on the changing international business relations of Samoa. Samoa had adopted the -11 time zone to make business with the U.S. easier. However, currently Samoa's most important trading partners are Australia and New Zealand. By switching time zone the work-weeks and week-ends on Samoa and Tokelau will be synchronized with those in Australia and New Zealand."

Re:SIgn of the "times"

[InterestingFella]

But how does Thailand handle unixtime? It's already year 2555 there. That's way past 32-bit int.

This happened to me once

[Stargoat]

This happened to me once. I crossed the International Date line on December 24. It was December 26 on the other side. It was the year without a Christmas.

Re:Your math does not calculate

[InterestingFella]

Bah, you westerners with your stupid one new year. I will celebrate western new year tomorrow, then in January I'll be in China when it's Chinese new year, and finally in April I will be in Thailand when it's Thai new year. Yay, three new year parties for me!

(and the Songkran will have country-wide free-for-all water fight, with insane amount of hot girls and ladyboys in wet t-shirts. Woohoo!)

Re:SIgn of the "times"

[InterestingFella]

If you go to north pole and keep running around the pole in same direction, crossing timezones, you can go infinitely back or forward in time!

Re:fail

[TamCaP]

s/small knuckle/valley between knuckles/ :-)

Re:But...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or Thursdays, I never could get a hang of Thursdays.

Re:SIgn of the "times"

[Anonymous Coward]

Just jump over it.

Inquiring minds want to know

[jabberw0k]

What will this do to the supply of Girl Scout Samoa cookies? (For the record, I hoarded Manila folders when the Marcos government fell.)

Re:SIgn of the "times"

[mjwx]

But how does Thailand handle unixtime? It's already year 2555 there. That's way past 32-bit int.

Considering that Unixtime only started in 2514.

Epoch fail.