Governor-general of the Philippines <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_Clavería_y_Zaldúa" id="mwdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa">Narciso Claveria</a>, signed a decree to reform the country's calendar to get in sync within the rest of Asia by skipping Tuesday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31" id="mwdg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="December 31">December 31</a>. As a solution to the time zone discrepancy of the Philippines with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of China">China</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" id="mweA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a> and neighboring territories to ease the trade system, since Mexico became independent from Spain 23 years earlier on September 27, 1821. Claveria ordered that Monday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_30" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="December 30">December 30</a>, 1844, should be followed immediately by Wednesday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="January 1">January 1</a>, 1845.<sup about="#mwt27" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_16#cite_note-4" id="mwew" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfA">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt24" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFBerto2022">Berto (July 28, 2022). <a class="external text" href="https://thephilippinestoday.com/claverias-reform/" id="mwB1w" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Claveria's Reform"</a>. The Philippines Today<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB10">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB14">March 18,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt24" class="Z3988" id="mwB18" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Claveria%27s+Reform&amp;rft.pub=The+Philippines+Today&amp;rft.date=2022-07-28&amp;rft.au=Berto&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthephilippinestoday.com%2Fclaverias-reform%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+16"></span></span>