Shabbat is when now?

[cellio]

I had not previously heard that Samoa is moving across the international date line this week, meaning that they will go from 11:59PM Thursday to 12:00AM Saturday, skipping Friday. This raises an interesting question for any Jews living there -- when is Shabbat?

According to one answer there, now it'll be Sunday -- we count days, not secular designations.

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Comments

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

I had this wonderful visual image of all the Samoans jumping into the water, each using one hand to lift the country out of the water and using the other hand to dog-paddle over to its new location. :) This may be an academic question, are there any Orthodox Jews in Samoa that would be affected? -- Dagonell

[cellio]

There doesn't appear to be a community of Shabbat-observant Jews there. (It wouldn't just be Orthodox who care, BTW.)