samwan
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West Samoa's time change
West Samoa has recently opted to become the first country greeting a new day west of the International Date Line (instead of east - and last). This is for practical reasons - so that she does not have to lose two working days in doing trades with New Zealand and Australia, I wonder what the impact will be on timepieces like VC's Timezone:
(Picture courtesy of WHL)
Any lights shed on the subject will be greatly appreciated.
Sam
West Samoa's time change
West Samoa has recently opted to become the first country greeting a new day west of the International Date Line (instead of east - and last). This is for practical reasons - so that she does not have to lose two working days in doing trades with New Zeal...
Won't it "just" require a revised dial?
VC has committed to making the adjustments necessary as timezones change and as customers request, I believe. The movement was designed to allow for relatively easy changes such as this, if I am not mistaken. It is one of the beautiful things about this a...
From what I understand Samoa...
From what I understand Samoa is doing a change of day (24hrs.) only & that should not effect the time of the day with reference to GMT / UTC so the position on the dial should not change.