November 28, 2008, Samoa - "Selected Committee reports to Cabinet on Daylight Saving Time",
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Selected Committee reports to Cabinet on Daylight Saving Time.
Cabinet has approved the report by the Committee that was appointed to assess possible benefits to instituting Daylight Saving Time for Samoa.
The report states that Daylight Saving Time is a convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically, clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring for the southern hemisphere and are adjusted backward in autumn.
As stated in the report, daylight saving time in Samoa will have significant benefits to the Country, like: promoting energy conservation; increasing opportunities for leisure; enhances public health and safety; and economic growth.
Cabinet has approved: Daylight saving time in Samoa; commencing first Sunday of October 2009 until the last Sunday of March 2010; legislation to be drafted by the Office of the Attorney General; and Labour Department to Implement and to monitor this program.
Daylight saving time for Samoa is a response to the need for national strategies to address the current worldwide crises in fuel and food price increase.
Lipoti Komiti na Iloiloina le Mataupu o le Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Ua faamaonia e le Kapeneta le lipoti a le Komiti na Iloiloina le mataupu o le Daylight Saving Time.
O loo auiliili i lenei lipoti le faamatalaga autu o le suia o le itula o le aso e pei ona faia e isi atunuu o le lalolagi e faapea: E sui le taimi i uati ina ia faateleina le malamalama i aoauli, a e faaitiitia i taimi o taeao. O le faiga, e ki i luma le uati i le itula e tasi i le latalata i le tau totogo a’e o laau mo le itu i sauté o le Kelope, a e ki i tua i le itula e tasi i le tau faaiuga o le tau e afu ai laau.
O lenei faiga, e pei ona taua i le lipoti, o le a faasaoina ai le malosiaga atoa ma isi itu lelei e pei o le faateleina o avanoa mo faiga malologa; siitia le tulaga lelei o le soifua maloloina; siitia le tulaga o le saogalemu lautele; ma le faatupulaia o le tamaoaiga.
Ua faamaonia e le Kapeneta fautuaga na tuuina mai e lenei lipoti e aofia ai le: faatinoina o le suia o le Itula o le Aso; faamautuina o le aso amata ma le aso faai’u – Aso Sa muamua o Oketopa 2009, Aso Sa mulimuli o Mati 2010; tusia o le Tulafono e le Ofisa o le Loia Sili; tuuina atu o lenei polokalame i le Matagaluega o le Leipa.
O le suiga o le Itula o le Aso, o se tali lea i le manao mo ni Fuafuaga Faataatitia a le Malo e faafetaiai ai le faafitauli i le taugata o le suauu.
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November 28, 2008, Samoa - "Samoa opts for daylight saving", Radio New Zealand International
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Samoa opts for daylight saving.
The Samoa Government has given the go ahead to daylight saving.
It says that from next year the country will put its clocks forward from the first weekend in October switching back at the end of March.
The Government says it will bring significant benefits, such as promoting energy conservation, increasing opportunities for leisure enhancing public health and safety and and economic growth.
It says it is a response to the need for national strategies to address the current worldwide crises in fuel and the higher costs of food.
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