<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello again,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found a few more articles supporting the idea that December 31, 1994 was the day that was skipped:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://todayshistorylesson.wordpress.com/tag/kiribati/" class="">https://todayshistorylesson.wordpress.com/tag/kiribati/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.onthisday.com/date/1994/december/31" class="">https://www.onthisday.com/date/1994/december/31</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_recent.htm" class="">https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_recent.htm</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/december/31" class="">https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/december/31</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=639&title=Kiribati" class="">http://www.timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=639&title=Kiribati</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Kerry</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kerry Shetline <<a href="mailto:kerry@shetline.com" class="">kerry@shetline.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Pacific/Enderbury and Pacific/Kiritimati, 1995</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">3 February 2018 at 17:07:19 ET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" class="">tz@iana.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When these time zones switched sides of the International Dateline at the beginning of 1995, the tz database, viewed via zdump, shows Sunday, January 1 being skipped — Saturday December 31, 1994 being followed immediately by Monday, January 2, 1995.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found an article, however, that suggests that December 31 was the day that was skipped, so that the transition would be from Friday December 30, 1994 to Sunday January 1, 1995: <a href="https://wikitravel.org/en/Kiribati" class="">https://wikitravel.org/en/Kiribati</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have no particular reason to believe this article is authoritative, but it did strike me odd that New Year’s Day, and a Sunday (more likely to offend some people’s religious sensibilities) would be the day that was skipped rather than Saturday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Kerry</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>