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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The International Date Line is not defined by any
international law or treaty. It is an arbitrary line drawn by cartographers,
separating lands in the Pacific Ocean whose standard time is later than UTC from
those whose standard time is earlier than UTC. Therefore, if Samoa decides to
shift its standard time from UTC-11 to UTC+13, the cartographers will simply
redraw the line to the east of Samoa. The same thing happened in 1995, when
Kiribati changed the date for its eastern island groups. The Line Islands and
the Phoenix Islands had been observing a different date, one day earlier than
the Gilbert Islands where most of the people of Kiribati lived. In 1995, the
Line and Phoenix groups were shifted forward by one day. They didn't need the
approval of any international agency. In response, new maps began appearing with
a large displacement in the International Date Line, skirting all of Kiribati
along the country's eastern limit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"... <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the term
‘International Date Line’ is thus in fact a misnomer. Its exact course was never
defined by any international treaty, law or agreement." (</FONT><A
href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm">http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm</A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The IDL drawn
on the map on this page and all other maps is now and always has been an
artificial construct of cartographers—the precise course of the line in
international waters is arbitrary. No international organization nor any treaty
between nations has fixed the "straight line" segments and their junctions. All
nations unilaterally determine their standard </FONT><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>time zones</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>..." (<A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line</A>)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope that addresses your question
adequately.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yours, Gwillim
Law</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=leilani.tuala@samoalawreform.gov.ws
href="mailto:leilani.tuala@samoalawreform.gov.ws">Leilani Tuala Warren</A>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The Samoa law Reform Commission has been tasked with
looking into how Samoa can shift the international dateline so that it is in
the same time zone as NZ, Fiji and Tonga rather than USA. Can we please enter
into some dialogue as to how this can be done on a global
scale?<o:p></o:p></P>
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