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This reminds me of a puzzle....

A man from the South Pacific called in to a publisher and demanded a refund for a page-a-day calendar he'd bought, claiming that because of where he lived, he paid for something in it that he could never use. The agent on the line for the publisher thought this was patently absurd, until she got the man's address and looked at the news. Smiling at his cleverness, she then sent the man a refund for exactly 1/365th of the price of the calendar.

Why did the man get his refund?

Hints:
1) The man didn't travel at all; he stayed home the entire year. Other people were affected by this problem, but none of them were silly enough to demand a refund!
2) If the man had lived anywhere else that year, or if he had called in during a different year, he wouldn't have a claim to a refund.
3) The agent said that if things had gone the other way, she'd have chided the man for getting double use out of that day on the calendar and not paying for it!

This one's hard, but I think a little bit of cleverness will solve it. @B310

You got it. The man lives in Samoa, which will be skipping December 30th of this year when the International Date Line shifts eastward.

Technically, the Date Line doesn't itself move: nations like Samoa (and earlier than that, Kiribati in 1995) instead assert that it has shifted, and begin doing business under their new positioning. Because the Date Line is so sparsely populated, however, this situation doesn't come up often.

Well done! I was worried the hints weren't helpful enough.

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