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Samoa prepares to cross the international datelineAudio Icon

29 December 2011

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Tonight, at midnight, the nation of Samoa will jump forward 24 hours.

The decision has been made that Samoa will move from the Eastern to the Western side of the international dateline, in the process losing a day, right now it is Thursday morning there, tomorrow it will be Saturday.

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Presenter: Campbell Cooney

Mata’Afa Keni Lesa, Editor of the Samoa Observer Newspaper

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