1. The islands of Fiji are located at +12 hour GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), or five hours behind U.S. Pacific time.
2. GMT is no longer the world's time standard. Rather Universal Time, Coordinated (UTC), which adds leap seconds at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation. In UTC, seconds are of a defined duration while all larger time intervals (hours, days, weeks) can be variable to allow for the "leap seconds"
August 20, 2011
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Fiji is five hours behind, true, but only on a clock. Technically they're 19 hours ahead. Right now it's 11 am Friday here, and it's 6 am Saturday there.
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