Samoa to skip Friday

[W.G.Ewald]

Samoa to skip Friday, lose December 30th 2011 forever - CSMonitor.com

As China's influence in the Pacific rises, Samoa is planning to cancel Friday, going directly from Thursday to Saturday, to synchronize trade with China

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[JayATL]

Samoa to skip Friday, lose December 30th 2011 forever - CSMonitor.com

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err no. not because of the chinese, their no1 partners for trade are australia and europe, which are 1 day ahead of them . that's why they did it.

4 months ago they also switched all cars from being left hand drive to right hand drive..

 

[W.G.Ewald]

err no. not because of the chinese, their no1 partners for trade are australia and europe, which are 1 day ahead of them . that's why they did it.

4 months ago they also switched all cars from being left hand drive to right hand drive..

Did you tell the Christian Science Monitor, so they can get to work on correcting their story?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Samoa skips Friday in leap across int'l date line

Samoa aimed to align its time zone with key trading partners in the Asia-Pacific region by shifting west of the international date line.

 

[Ray]

To use the Americanism -whatever floats their boat!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

To use the Americanism -whatever floats their boat!

Workers were paid full wages for the missing Friday. I can't think of any other adjustment they need to make.

 

[Blackwater]

err no. not because of the chinese, their no1 partners for trade are australia and europe, which are 1 day ahead of them . that's why they did it.

4 months ago they also switched all cars from being left hand drive to right hand drive..

Bade wale ha yeah samoa wale

 

[anoop_mig25]

how can skeeping one day would translate to synchronize trade with China just a fooolish step to please masters who ever it may be