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Tonga has been on UTC+13:00 for many years.Daylight saving time was used in the southern summer seasons from October 1999 to January 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017.[5]
UTC+13:00 was used until 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the easternmost parts ofRussia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) that usedKamchatka Time.
At the end of29 December 2011 (UTC−10:00), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country, skipping30 December 2011.[2][3] Following Samoa's decision, Tokelau also simultaneously advanced its standard time (used without daylight saving time), from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00.[1][3]
Fiji, where normal time is UTC+12:00, decides year by year whether it will observe DST, and if so for which dates, which are usually a short period between November or December and January. No DST has been observed since 2020–2021.[6]
