<P> 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 . </P> <P> Kwajalein atoll, like the rest of the Marshall Islands, passed from Spanish to German to Japanese control during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . During that period it was west of the IDL . Although Kwajalein formally became part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands with the rest of the Marshalls after World War II, the United States established a military installation there . Because of that, Kwajalein used the Hawaiian date, so was effectively east of the International Date Line (unlike the rest of the Marshalls). Kwajalein returned to the west side of the IDL by removing Saturday, 21 August 1993 from its calendar to match the dates used by the rest of the Marshall Islands, at the request of its government . Along with the shift, Kwajalein's work week was changed to Tuesday through Saturday to match the Hawaiian work week of Monday through Friday on the other side of the IDL . </P> <P> As a British colony, the now - Republic of Kiribati was centred in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the IDL of the time . Upon independence in 1979, it acquired the Phoenix and Line Islands, east of the IDL, from the United States . As a result, the country straddled the IDL . Government and commercial concerns on opposite sides of the line could only conduct routine business by radio or telephone on the four days of the week which were weekdays on both sides . To eliminate this anomaly, Kiribati introduced a change of date for its eastern half on Sunday, 1 January 1995 . After the change, the IDL in effect moved eastwards to go around the entire country . Strictly legal, the 1917 nautical IDL convention is still valid . When the land time zone says it's Monday, these islands would form enclaves of Monday in an ocean which has Sunday . Maps are usually not drawn this way . </P> <P> As a consequence of the 1995 change, Kiribati's easternmost territory, the Line Islands, including the inhabited island of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), started the year 2000 before any other country, a feature the Kiribati government capitalized upon as a potential tourist draw . </P>

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