Lost Friday
29/12/2011
The story of “the Lost Friday”, In which the whole country of Samoa will leap forward 24 hours in to the future, when the country puts its head to rest on Thursday 29th of December 2011 they will wake up a full day a head on Saturday the 31st of December 2011.
The entire nation has deciding to shift across the International Date Line so it is in line with key trading partners such as Australia and New Zealand, which are a full day ahead of Samoa.
The decision to keep the country behind a day has been left for one hundred and nineteen years, Samoa is currently 21 hours behind Sydney but come new years eve, it will be 3 hours ahead, and being one of the first to celebrate 2012 instead of the last.
My ideas for a documentary, in which we show what happened when an island leaps 24 hours in to the future, and speak to people who have a birthday or anniversary that simply vanished. The documentary will take place over a 48 hour period the day before and the day after the shift in the IDL.
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