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  • A couple relax on a beach in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which, for economic reasons, has announced plans to jump forward in time by one day by switching to the west side of the international date line. (AP Photo/Samoa Tourist Authority, D. Kirkland)

    Samoa to go 'Back to the Future' with date-line shift

    Samoa plans to leap 24 hours into the future, erasing a day and putting a new kink in the Pacific's jagged international date line so that it can be on the same weekday as Australia, New Zealand and eastern Asia.

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