"and the existence of the Pacific warm pool of sub-surface temperature anomalies in this region. Both the Island Climate Update and the FMS tropical cyclone outlooks assessed the risk of a tropical cyclone affecting a certain island or territory. As the tropical cyclone genesis trough of low pressure was expected to be located to the west of the International Dateline, normal or slightly above normal activity was expected for areas near the dateline. The Island Climate Update Outlook predicted that Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, the Solomon and Cook Islands had a normal risk of"
"now drive on the left side of the road like in most other Commonwealth countries. This brought Samoa into line with many other countries in the region. Samoa thus became the first country in the 21st century to switch to driving on the left. At the end of December 2011, Samoa jumped forward by one day, omitting 30 December from the local calendar, when the nation moved to the west of the International Date Line. This change aimed to help the nation boost its economy in doing business with Australia and New Zealand. Before this change, Samoa was 21 hours"
"century. The Samoan Islands, now divided into Samoa and American Samoa, were on the west side of the IDL until 1892. In that year, King Malietoa Laupepa was persuaded by American traders to adopt the American date (three hours behind California) to replace the former Asian date (four hours ahead of Japan). The change was made by repeating , American Independence Day. In 2011, Samoa shifted back to the west side of the IDL by removing Friday, from its calendar. This changed the timezone from to . Samoa made the change because Australia and New Zealand have become its biggest"
"trading partners, and also have large communities of expatriates. Being 21 hours behind made business difficult because having weekends on backward days meant only four days of the week were shared workdays. The IDL now passes between Samoa and American Samoa, which remains on the east (American) side of the line. Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand north of Samoa whose principal transportation and communications links with the rest of the world pass through Samoa. For that reason, Tokelau crossed the IDL along with Samoa in 2011. Kwajalein atoll, like the rest of the Marshall Islands, passed from Spanish"
". Effective Wednesday, , the Philippines, Guam, Mariana Islands and Caroline Islands switched back to Asian date. Western publications were generally unaware of this change until the early 1890s, so erroneously gave the International Date Line a large western bulge for the next half century. The Russian Empire settled northwest North America from Siberia, from the west with its own Julian calendar (it did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918). The United States purchased Russian America while based in the contiguous United States, from the east with its own Gregorian calendar (adopted in 1752 while several British colonies). The"
"been last used during 2008 and are scheduled to be used again during 2016. The names Carina and Ferdie were used for the first time during the year after the names Cosme, and Frank were retired. After the season the name Pablo was retired by PAGASA, as it was responsible for over 300 deaths and Php1 billion in damages. It was subsequently replaced on the list with Pepito. This table lists all the storms that developed in the western Pacific Ocean to the west of the International Date Line during the 2012 season. It includes their intensity, duration, name, areas"
"8 May 2009, Martin and Dawson set off from Choshi, Japan into the north Pacific Ocean. After an eventful journey where the crew sighted the US Naval research vessel SBX-1. and ran out of food requiring a helicopter resupply from Wayne Lackey 189 Days, 10 Hours, 55 Minutes after the pair set out from Japan they rowed their boat ""Bojangles"" underneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday 13 November 2009. In 2010, Martin and Dawson were given a Guinness World Record for being the first team to row across the North Pacific Ocean. The footage they filmed on their trip"
"Tuvalu in 2009. She completed the third leg her trip (from Tuvalu to PNG) in 2010 and so became the first woman to row across the Pacific Ocean unassisted. Chris Martin and Mick Dawson rowed a 2-man boat from Choshi, Japan to San Francisco Harbour, USA in 2009. Their journey took 189 days and in doing so they achieved the Guinness World Record for being the first team to row across the North Pacific Ocean. From 10 July 2007 to 17 May 2008 Erden Eruç rowed westward from Bodega Bay, California for a total of 312 consecutive days, setting the"
"gold. In the 1990s, a Puerto Rican tourism campaign renamed the Passage Islands as the Spanish Virgin Islands, though they are seldom identified as such on maps and atlases. They are part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, located east of the main island of Puerto Rico. They are closer to St. Thomas than St. Thomas is to St. Croix. Motor vehicles are driven on the left-hand side of the road in both the British and the U.S. Virgin Islands, although the steering wheels on most cars are located on the left side (as is the norm for drive-on-the-right localities)."
"Reef, Palmyra Island and Jarvis Island) are United States territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Only Kiritimati and Tabuaeran atolls and Teraina Island have a permanent population. The International Date Line passes through the Line Islands. The Line Islands that are part of Kiribati are in the world's farthest forward time zone, . The time of day is the same as in the U.S. state of Hawaii, but the date is one day ahead. The time is 1 day and 2 hours ahead of some other islands in Oceania like Baker Island, which uses . The islands"
"also occasionally visited by Polynesian copra gatherers under agreements with the Kiribati government in Tarawa. On December 23, 1994, the Republic of Kiribati announced a change of time zone for the Line Islands, to take effect December 31, 1994. This adjustment effectively moved the International Date Line over to the east within Kiribati, placing all of Kiribati on the Asian or western side of the date line, despite the fact that Caroline's longitude of 150 degrees west corresponds to UTC−10 rather than its official time zone of UTC+14. Caroline Island now is at the same time as the Hawaiian Islands"
"responses to climate change, and trade and investment. The Group was in part a response to the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Tuilaepa's government has passed highly controversial legislation to switch Samoan road use from right to left-hand traffic. The controversy resulted in a peaceful demonstration which drew more than 15,000 people, the largest protest demonstration in Samoan history, and to the founding of the People's Party, a political party established to protest against changing sides. In 2011, Tuilaepa's government introduced a bill to shift Samoa west of the International Date Line, to facilitate economic relations with Australia, New Zealand and Asia"
"and New Zealand's Kermadec Islands and Chatham Islands are all west of the IDL and have the same date. American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, and French Polynesia are east of the IDL and one day behind. The IDL then bends southwest to return to 180°. It follows that meridian until reaching Antarctica, which has multiple time zones. Conventionally, the IDL is not drawn into Antarctica on most maps. (See below.) A person who goes around the world from east to west (the same direction as Magellan's voyage) would gain or set their clock back one hour for every 15°"
"Pacific (and the International Date Line), daylight airstrikes followed at mid-day (UTC+12) on Wake Island, at 09:27 (UTC+10) on Guam, at 06:00 (UTC+8) on Davao, at 09:30 (UTC+8) on Baguio and at 12:35 (UTC+8) on Clark Field. United States Army Air Forces aircraft losses on the ground in the Philippines were similar to those sustained on Oahu despite nine hours available for preparations following the Pearl Harbor attack; but commanding general Douglas MacArthur avoided the disgrace suffered by Hawaiian commanding general Walter Short. Manila was the United States forward military base in the Pacific, with strategic significance comparable to Singapore"
"Samoa is among the first places on earth to see each new day, along with Tonga, Tokelau (during Standard Time) and parts of Kiribati. The IANA time zone database in the file zone.tab contains one zone for Samoa, named ""Pacific/Asia"". Until the end of 2011, Samoa fell east of the International Date Line, observing ( during daylight saving time). This was in line with neighboring American Samoa, which continues to observe UTC−11:00 (Samoa Time Zone) year-round. At the end of Thursday, 29 December 2011, Samoa continued directly to Saturday, 31 December 2011, skipping the entire calendar day of Friday 30"
"crossed the International Dateline on October 12. On October 6, a tropical depression east of Japan was upgraded to Tropical Storm Podul while racing northeast. It was short-lived over the northwest Pacific and degenerated into a remnant low early on October 7. One person was killed due to the effects of Podul in Japan. It was upgraded to severe tropical storm status by JMA in post analysis. On October 9, a disturbance from the North Central Pacific crossed the International Date Line, and became a tropical depression in the North Western Pacific, just east of the Date Line on October"
"simultaneously. The revision of Kiribati's time zone meant that the date line in effect moved eastwards to go around this country, so that the Line Islands, including the inhabited Kiritimati island, started the year 2000 on its territory before any other country on Earth, a feature the Kiribati government capitalized on as a potential tourist draw. Tonga—IANA time zone database zone name Pacific/Tongatapu—used UTC+14 for daylight saving time from 1999 to 2002 & 2016 to 2017, and therefore celebrated new year 2000 at the same time as the Line Islands in Kiribati. At the end of (), Samoa advanced its"
"time flying westward, or ""chasing the sun"", is slowed, while local clock time flying eastbound is sped up. However, flights over the International Date Line located at approximately 180 E in the Pacific will subtract 24 hours from the schedule time going eastwards and add 24 hours going westwards. For example, the eastward flight shown in the example from Japan to North America will have a scheduled time of arrival earlier than the departure time, while from North America to Japan the flight will take a whole day longer by local time; the actual flying time in both cases being"
"sharply after the change, but soon rose back to near its original level. The day was known as ""Dagen H"" (""H-Day""), the 'H' being for ""Högertrafik"" (""right traffic""). When Iceland switched the following year, it was known as ""H-dagurinn"", again meaning ""H-Day"". In the late 1960s, the UK Department for Transport considered switching to RHT, but declared it unsafe and too costly for such a built-up nation. Road building standards, for motorways in particular, allow asymmetrically designed road junctions, where merge and diverge lanes differ in length. Today, four countries in Europe continue to use left-hand traffic, all island nations:"
"opposite sides of the International Date Line, it can, for example, be noon Thursday on Baker and Howland islands while simultaneously being noon Friday on Wake Island. Other outlying islands include Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef (); Johnston Atoll (); and Navassa Island, Bajo Nuevo Bank, and Serranilla Bank (). In Antarctica, the US research facility Palmer Station is in , while McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station use in order to coordinate with their main supply base in New Zealand. Daylight saving time (DST) begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on"
"Transportation in the United States Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is the only place under United States jurisdiction where the rule of the road is to drive on the left. However, virtually all passenger vehicles are left hand drive due to imports of U.S. vehicles. The United States aquired St. Thomas from a European country which drove on the left side of the road. In the early 1900's the U.S. Military Governor ordered that on a certain day every one would drive on the right side of the road. This resulted in total chaos which caused major"
"H-dagurinn H-dagurinn or Hægri dagurinn (Icelandic: The right day) on 26 May 1968 was the day that Iceland changed from left hand traffic to right hand traffic. The change itself occurred formally at 6:00 am. Although Iceland had been ruled by Denmark, which officially adopted driving on the right in 1793, it had continued to drive on the left; a plan to switch to right-hand traffic was interrupted by World War II, when the country was under British military occupation, as military traffic was greater than that of civilians. Iceland's parliament (Alþingi) made the following demand of the government on"
"2002 was retired and replaced with Glenda, as it was the name of the incumbent Philippine president at that time. After the season, PAGASA had stated that the names ""Milenyo"" and ""Reming"" will be retired as they had caused over Php1 billion in damages and over 300 fatalities. They were subsequently replaced on the list with ""Mario"" and ""Ruby"". Both names, however, were retired after the 2014 season, being replaced by Maymay and Rosita respectively. This table summarizes all the systems that developed within or moved into the North Pacific Ocean, to the west of the International Date Line during"
"Year, just west of the International Date Line, is located in the Line Islands, a part of the nation of Kiribati, and has a time zone 14 hours ahead of UTC. All other time zones are 1 to 25 hours behind, most in the previous day (December 31); on American Samoa and Midway, it is still 11 PM on December 30. These are among the last inhabited places to observe New Year. However, uninhabited outlying U.S. territories Howland Island and Baker Island are designated as lying within the time zone 12 hours behind UTC, the last places on earth to"
"Francisco, due to its common practice, making three right turns is known colloquially as a ""San Francisco left turn"". Likewise, as many intersections in Taipei City are too busy to allow direct left turns, signs often direct drivers to drive around the block to turn. Turning rules are by no means universal. For example, in New Zealand (a drive-on-the-left country) between 1977 and 2012, left turning traffic had to give way to opposing right-turning traffic wishing to take the same road (unless there were multiple lanes, but then one must take care in case a vehicle jumped lanes). New Zealand"
"see the sunset of each day"". This has now changed, as the Samoan government has moved the International Date Line east of the country in 2011. Families have moved inland for the convenience of living by the main road near public transport, as well as the extensive damage to the coastal village from cyclones in the early 1990s, which left behind old church ruins along the coast. There are rock pools, caves, and sandy beaches in the area. Falealupo-Uta has small shops and facilities for Western Union money transfer while there are beach fale accommodation and a shop at Falealupo-tai."
"International Date Line The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of demarcation on the surface of Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups. The IDL is roughly based on the meridian of 180° longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and halfway around the world from the Greenwich meridian. In many places, the IDL follows"
"Lloyd all withdrew to sail to the Philippines and Taiwan for repairs. The leg lasted from 18 January until 29 January 2009. Ericsson 3 won leg five, the longest leg at , of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Qingdao in China to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in a time of 40 days and five hours, arriving on 26 March 2009. The teams left for Boston in the United States on leg five, which began on 11 April 2009. The boats arrived in Boston in late April, with an in port race on 9 May. Leg 6 was won"
"for political reasons as it sounds like Noynoy, the former President of the country, it was redacted and replaced with Nona in mid-December when Tropical Storm Melor entered PAGASA's AoR. After the season the names Lando and Nona were retired by PAGASA, as they had caused over in damages. They were subsequently replaced on the list with the names Liwayway and Nimfa. This table summarizes all the systems that developed within or moved into the North Pacific Ocean, to the west of the International Date Line during 2015. The tables also provide an overview of a systems intensity, duration, land"
"the Pacific—would observe Shabbat on the local Friday instead of the local Saturday. It is possible (but not certain) under this view to apply the principal of ""tafel"" described above as well. In that event, mainland Alaska would be east of the date line, but the Aleutian Islands would be west of the date line. 3. ""Mid-Pacific."" A variety of decisors rule that the date line runs in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, close to (but not necessarily the same as) the conventional International Date Line. According to this point of view, all of the major populated areas of"
"of Tokelau, Cook Islands and Niue do not maintain DST. The latter two are on the other side of the International Date Line and differ between 22 and 24 hours from New Zealand proper. Samoa started with DST in 2010, starting on the last Sunday in September and ending on first Sunday in April. All U.S. insular territories with civilian government in Oceania, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands lie in the tropics and do not observe DST. Daylight saving time in Oceania Parts of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are areas of Oceania that currently"
"travel, as currently. Instead, a diagonal partition shunted them off to one side while the stairs disappeared under the partition. The side chosen for disembarkation was the left hand side and this is the origin of their convention that riders should stand on the right, so that the walking riders would not have to cut into a standing line of people to exit. Locations such as Hong Kong and Belgium also follow this convention. However certain countries, for instance Australia, Singapore, most of Japan, and New Zealand, riders stand on the left and walk on the right, following the road"
"day. The 6,500 NM leg started 5 November 2011 at 1300 UTC. Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand led the fleet out of Alicante and through the Gibraltar straits. On 5 November 2011, ""Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing"" lost its mast within hours of the race's beginning during heavy winds and high seas near Alicante. On 6 November 2011 ""Team Sanya"" was forced to head to port after damaging its hull. Team Sanya withdrew from the first leg on 7 November after an assessment of the damage. The fleet were led round the turning mark near the archipelago of Fernando de"