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.)

Comments

[fauxklore]

I have that magnetic globe. I need to find the address for the pieces because I lost part of the Pacific Ocean in the course of moving.

And, by the way, it isn't only Samoa that is changing the calendar. Tokelau is also. I was speculating on the Shabbos question earlier today myself.

[cellio]

I think I saw that globe 20 years ago, so part of me wondered if they were still in business. Have they been sending out updates automatically? (Did you get South Sudan?)

[fauxklore]

They might if I had ever remembered to update my address with them. I've moved three times since I got the globe, so, yeah, it was a long time ago.