by WiZ » Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:26 pm
Did Samoa at some point move from GMT+12 to GMT-12 (or a similar change. I know it is located around that timezones), changing the official date from, let's say the 12th to the 13th, so that month had actually one less day, but the workers still got paid for a full month? I think you have the general idea.
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In order to improve ties with their increasingly-important trade partners in Oceania, Samoa changed from one side of the international Date Line to the other at midnight on December 29, 2011. The country then immediately went to December 31. Although the country effectively legislated December 30 out of existence, all employees were still legally entitled to be paid for it!
Congratulations Wwhere, Earnest and LemonCurry on the solution, and thank you everyone for playing!
The spoiler tag means 'resolved' in Samoan.