Lost in Time

MyGirl is learning about maps and she told us about a country that lost the 30th of December last year.

At the end of 29 December 2011, Samoa jumped forward by one day.  They skipped 30 December from the local calendar when the nation moved to the west of the International Date Line.  

Seems this was done In order to boost its economy to enable the country to do business with Australia and New Zealand.    Samoa used to be 21 hours behind Sydney, now they are ahead by three hours.

Knowing that the lost day was RD's birthday, I said, "They figured December 30th was not a very important day so they decided they could do without it."  

Although RD knew I was just teasing him, he was not amused. He said, "Oh, yeah? Well April 30 is not important either."