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by ars 5282 days ago
I'm quite curious if local churches will follow along with the change.

I know Jews wouldn't, and I doubt Muslims would, but I don't think there are any Jews there anyway, not sure about Muslims.
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jonknee 5282 days ago
Why not? It's arbitrary anyways--as the article mentions the same place previously switched (which means if the Jews didn't like change they would still be on the time that everyone is now switching back to).
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ars 5282 days ago
The Jewish religion has it's own date line that does not correspond to the international one.

My question was what does Christianity do, and I guess no one here knows.

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protomyth 5282 days ago
Christianity is actually split on which day to keep. Those that follow the Catholic Church (via canon 29 of the Council of Laodicea) worship on Lord's Day[1] (Sunday). Those that feel the church could not change the day of worship (e.g. Seventh Day Baptists) worship on the Sabbath (Saturday).

Wikipedia has a small breakdown for the 7th day in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath - some going with local, some going with time in Israel. Not being Jewish, I am not sure how accurate this one is for Jews: http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-trav-dateline.htm

It was my understanding that Catholics go with local to determine Sunday.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day

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noonespecial 5282 days ago
I'd say that except for a few groups(1), Christians just want a day and aren't too concerned about which day.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church

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protomyth 5281 days ago
With Samoa calendar change, question for Jews: When is Shabbat? http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/12/30/3090969/samoa-cal...
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alecperkins 5282 days ago
What's to follow? It's just a one-time change that makes a lot of sense given their location. They aren't permanently getting rid of Friday. Besides, Hebrew and Muslim calendars are lunar-based and I would imagine not affected by this.
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ars 5282 days ago
Not the calendar, the day of the week. There is no provision in the religious rules for Jews or Muslims for a "one time change".

I'm not super familiar with the Muslim rules, but I know the Jewish rules have their own date line that does not correspond to the international one.

I don't know what the Christian rules are about the international date line and that's what I was asking.

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