The More You Know.

"Svend" (svend)
06/10/2019 at 03:45 • Filed to: None

Did you know that while Samoa and American Samoa are only 102 miles apart, they are 24 hours (or 25 hours in the summer). Because they are different sides of the international date line.

Meaning the current time now in Samoa is 20:45, Monday 10th June 2019 (GMT+13),

while in American Samoa the current time is 20:45, Sunday 9th June 2019 (GMT-11).

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DISCUSSION (9)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
06/10/2019 at 04:42

Arizona is retarded

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Svend
06/10/2019 at 05:04

And did you know that that’s only been true since 2011? Western Samoa redrew the date line then so as to be on the same working day as their main trade partners Australia and NZ.

There was also some suggestion that they’d get a tourism benefit from being the first place to see the sun. Although that’s not actually true - Mt Hikurangi in NZ is high enough that it gets sunrise first even though samoa’s f urther east.

The change has however made it harder to see the first and last sun of the same day, which you used to be able to do thanks to a direct NZ -Samoa flight.

Svend > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/10/2019 at 05:20

Ye’, it’s in the video, but I knew it from watching Qi a couple of years back.

It must be so strange doing business around there, I mean, the invoices must be all over the place.

Item bought online at 7am Sunday, 9am Sunday item dispatched, 1pm Sunday item received at depot, 6pm Saturday item received.

Next day postage must be insane from one side while next day from the other side means they’ve two days to get it to you.

Phoning your friends, “are you coming to the rugby game tomorrow?”,

“your tomorrow or my tomorrow?”.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Svend
06/10/2019 at 05:33

We wound up with no accommodation the first night of a holiday in the Cook Islands a few years ago because I messed up the date difference.

Svend > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/10/2019 at 05:48

Ye’, but it made the holiday more memorable. Lol.

Even if you didn’t want it to at the time.

I’ve known people to mess up over much less. A friend married a teacher and we were all driving through to Poland from the U.K.

On the ferry from Dover to Calais, she asked, ‘why does it take longer for the ferry to go one way than it does the other?’.

I asked if she was serious, to which she pointed at the departure and arrival times, I had to point out that those times were local times. She wasn’t the brightest tool in the box and couldn’t figure what Ł100 was in Zloti, it was four Zloti to the pound. She was totally stumped trying to figure out what 200 Zloti in pounds was.

DipodomysDeserti > pip bip - choose Corrour
06/10/2019 at 05:59

It’s too hot here to have Daylight Savings Time. We don’t need to save any daylight.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/10/2019 at 09:26

I remember that! There was a whole date(day?) that never happened because of the jump.

BahamaTodd > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/10/2019 at 09:58

Something similar a lmost happen ed to me on a business trip to China except they are a day ahead. All my hotel and meeting arrangements were set but I actually wouldn’t arrive until the next day. I caught my mistake about a week before the trip and got it all rescheduled .

Ash78, voting early and often > pip bip - choose Corrour
06/10/2019 at 10:25

Anyone who ignores daylight saving time is a genius, IMO.