So Samoa decided to move to the other side of the International Date Line, and in so doing, decided to just skip over Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.
Does anyone know why they chose that day to do it? I’m curious why they didn’t just wait two months and skip Leap Day, as that would not have been so potentially disruptive (to people’s birthdays, paydays, Seventh-Day Adventists, etc).
I’ve been unable to find much on this except for the brief news stories around the web.
WAG - It occurred on a holiday weekend. What better time to do it so as to minimize business transactions. Doing it on Leap Day 2012 would occur in the middle of the business week.
Oh those crazy Samoans. First they change the name of their country from Western Samoa to just plain old Samoa. Well they can call it what they like, but in their heart of hearts, we know, they know and God knows, it’s still Western Samoa.
As if to say our good old American Samoa was the odd ball out.
Now they are pretending a bunch of hours don’t even exists. What will those wacky Western Samoans think of next. Eight days a week? 
They’ll think of getting involved in the Israeli=Palestinian conflict and declaring that part of the West Bank actually belongs to them. Because as the saying goes, “Samoa, Samaria.”