Originally Posted by
Red78 
Vman all this time I thought that here in NZ we were at the start of the time zone, turns out I was wrong, it's Samoa seeing in the new year in under 2 hours and under 3 here in NZ.. ya learn something new everyday..
only since 2011 though. they skipped a day then & changed sides of the international dateline:
Samoa and Tokelau skip a day for dateline change - BBC News