{"id":3933,"date":"2011-12-31T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2011-12-31T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T23:08:42","slug":"american-samoas-big-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"American Samoa’s big shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up until December 30, 2011, American Samoa’s time zone was GMT-11 hours (no DST).\u00a0 The Islands are very close to the International Date line, the place where time changes by a day.<\/p>\n

This was creating problems for American Samoa, as they are much more socially connected to Asia than to Mainland America.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So AS has officially moved into tomorrow, permanently losing a day in the process.\u00a0\u00a0 American Samoa will be at GMT+13 instead of GMT-11, making them in the first time zone to start a new day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up until December 30, 2011, American Samoa’s time zone was GMT-11 hours (no DST).\u00a0 The Islands are very close to the International Date line, the place where time changes by a day. This was creating problems for American Samoa, as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}