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.

(Testing mobile posting.)

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[magid.livejournal.com]

According to this BBC article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377), they moved across the date line in the other direction 119 years ago, so perhaps they're just moving into standard alignment again, and had Shabbat off a day until now?

[cellio]

Good question -- were there Jews there before the first move and they've been on the wrong day for 120 years, or did the Jews only come after that move and establish Saturday Shabbat as expected, only to be messed up now? Apparently there's no community there now; I wonder if there ever was.