This is a rare case, where two small country located in the Pacific Ocean changing the time zone of their country. The country is Samoa and Tokelau. Step changing the timezone is pretty drastic, so the time in the country to jump straight from Thursday to Saturday, with no Friday the 30th of December 2011.
The plan is not new, because Samoa has announced it will take a decision at the previous May. Efforts are made in order to improve trade relations with Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile Tokelau countries announced the decision in Read the remainder of this entry »