Crossing the dateline
By political edict, Tonga is on the other side of the dateline from Samoa even though it is not really in the Eastern hemisphere. This was done to align it more closely with Fiji and New Zealand of which it has close political ties.
As a result of this anomaly, the fourteenth of August does not exist for us as we have crossed into Tongan waters.
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