Kiribati. (Country Profile).

New Internationalist | November 1, 2002| | Copyright

KIRIBATI not only straddles the equator but was also until recently divided by the international dateline, leaving only three shared working days between the two time zones: Mondays east of the dateline were Sundays in the capital, and Fridays in the capital were Saturday in the Line and Phoenix Islands. In 1995 Kiribati re-arranged the dateline to bring all the islands into the same time zone, a move the Government claimed was expedient, but others cynically observed resulted in a global television focus on Kiribati's millennium celebrations of the first sunrise in the 21st ...

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