The comment about why they moved the calandar 119 years ago to be closer to the USA had me perplexed. I guessed it would have been too early for Samoa to get a telegraph station and therefore I couldn't understand the need to move the date. But looking at this http://goo.gl/wIaTb it seems to me that they got the telegraph in 1880 or there abouts...which precipitated the need for first change.
