Hour(s) Lost

     We're used to losing and gaining an hour when we switch from Daylight Savings to Standard Time (and back) each year. But in Samoa Thursday night at Midnight, they'll lose 24  hours.
     Chief editor, speler speller-guy and supporter of charities Jay pointed it out to me.
     Samoa has decided to move to the other side of the nearby International Date Line (which always sounded to me like a bad game show name). They'll go from 12:00:00 PM Thursday to 12:00:00 AM Saturday. So long Friday!
    NPR explains why here.

[PLUS: There's also a plan being proposed elsewhere to change the calandar so your birthday would always fall on the same day of the week, as would all of the holidays. And an extra week would be added every 5 or 6 years to make it work!]