Where the new comes first. How is the New Year moving around Russia? Let's talk about it in more detail

Last updated: 12/29/2015

Russians will celebrate the New Year 11 times this year. AiF.ru has created a special hint infographic that will help Muscovites not to get confused and at the right time to congratulate their relatives living in other regions of the country on the holiday.

In what order will the people of Russia celebrate the New Year?

In Russia, the people of Kamchatka and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug will be the first to celebrate the New Year. The holiday for them will come 9 hours earlier than for Muscovites.

Following Kamchatka and Chukotka, the president will congratulate the inhabitants of the eastern regions of the Yakutsk region and the Severo-Kuril region of the Sakhalin region on the New Year. There, the last strike of the chimes will sound 8 hours earlier than in the capital.

The third champagne will be opened by residents of the central part of Yakutia, as well as Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Magadan Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the western part of the Sakhalin Region. They will meet the holiday 7 hours earlier than Moscow.

Then, walking around the country, the New Year will come to visit the inhabitants of the western regions of Yakutia and the Amur Region. For them, the holiday will come 6 hours earlier than the Russian capital.

Fifth in the new year will be residents of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Irkutsk Region. They will make their most cherished wish under the chiming clock five hours earlier than Muscovites.

The sixth to celebrate the holiday will be residents of Tuva, Khakassia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Kemerovo Region. They will uncork the champagne four hours earlier than they do in Moscow.

Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk regions, as well as the Republic of Altai and the Altai Territory will join the New Year celebrations seventh. They will be able to see fireworks three hours earlier than Muscovites.

Bashkortostan, Perm Territory, Yugra, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as well as Kurgan, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk regions will celebrate the holiday eighth in the Russian Federation. Glasses in anticipation of the last blow of the chimes will be raised there two hours earlier than Moscow.

Residents of the Udmurt and Samara regions will be the ninth to launch fireworks and blow up firecrackers. They will enter the new year an hour earlier than Muscovites.

Tenth glasses of champagne will be raised by Muscovites and residents of the European part of Russia and the Crimean peninsula.

Residents of the Kaliningrad region will be the last to celebrate the holiday in the Russian Federation - the president wishes them happiness in the new year an hour later than Muscovites.

Which countries are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day? These are the Kingdom of Tonga, the Republic of Kiribati, as well as the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island.

Let's talk about this in more detail.

Map of time zones.

Map of time zones.

In the far left and right parts of the map, the Dateline, or (in other words) the International Date Line, is indicated.

It is crossed (at the bottom of the map, near Australia) by the Republic of Kiribati. Kiribati, due to its length, is simultaneously in three time zones in relation to Greenwich time, namely in the zones: plus 12, plus 13, plus 14, and therefore cannot be considered a country that is entirely the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day. Only that part of Kiribati, which is located in the time zones: plus 13 and plus 14, celebrates the New Year and the new day first in the world.

In turn, the Kingdom of Tonga (time zone: plus 13) is the only country in the world that is the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day all year round. Tonga does not switch to daylight saving time as New Zealand does (New Zealand winter time: plus 12 and summer time: plus 13). Thus, in winter, New Zealand cannot boast of being the first country in the world to celebrate the New Year.

However, the New Zealand possession - Chatham Island (with its winter time: plus 12 hours 45 minutes) celebrates the New Year just 15 minutes after Tonga.

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The organ of the government of Tonga, the Tonga Chronicle newspaper (published in 1964-2009), in its issue of February 20, 1997, described the privilege and right of the Kingdom of Tonga to be called the first country to celebrate the New Year and the new day:

“Until the end of the 19th century, the world did not have a system of time zones. But as the network of railroads and regular shipping lines expanded, the need to somehow harmonize their timetables became apparent. As a result, the main trading nations in 1870 began to discuss the introduction of standard and standard time in order to get rid of the chaos in this matter.

These efforts culminated in the Washington International Meridian Conference. 1884., which divided the Earth into 24 standard meridians, 15° apart in longitude, starting west of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Meridian, located at 180 ° (12 hours before Greenwich) became the basis for the so-called. Dateline, along which countries to the west of it entered the next day, while countries to the east remained in the previous one. (The following countries participated in the Washington International Meridian Conference, which developed a system of time zones for the whole world and drew the International Date Line: Austria-Hungary, the Brazilian Empire, Venezuela, the German Empire, Guatemala, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Hawaii , Costa Rica, Mexico, Netherlands, Ottoman Empire, Paraguay, Russian Empire, El Salvador, Great Britain, USA, France, Chile, Sweden (in union with Norway), Switzerland and Japan Note site).

However, when determining the international Date Line, the conference participants agreed with its deviations from the 180th parallel in order to avoid dividing the day within individual subjects, such as New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Siberia (meaning the Far North of Russia Note ..

In the Southern Hemisphere, the International Date Line was drawn north of the South Pole... so as not to separate Chatham Island in terms of date. Raoul, Eng. Sunday, now New Zealand Note . site), the Kingdom of Tonga, which belongs to Fiji, the Lau archipelago, similarly to the North and South Islands of New Zealand ... Similar deviations in the date line were agreed in the Northern Hemisphere, so as not to divide the territories in the sense of date in Eastern Siberia ( meaning the Far North of Russia.

In theory, standard time should never be more than 12 hours ahead of or behind Greenwich Mean Time. But the permissible deviation, according to the decisions of the mentioned conference 1884 put Tonga in the zone 13 hours ahead of GMT. In turn, New Zealand and Fiji were in the zone 12 hours ahead of Greenwich time, and Western Samoa 11 hours behind Greenwich time.

But until 1941, Tonga did not adhere to its local time, which was supposed to be 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. Tongan time was then 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand winter time, and accordingly Tongan time was 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

When New Zealand adjusted its standard time in the 1940s, Tonga had the choice of either changing its local time to match New Zealand's time; or move to a time ahead of Greenwich Mean Time by 13 hours (which would be 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).

His Majesty, the future King Taufaahau Tupou IV (Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, became king in 1965 ., and rules up to 2006. Note. site), while known as Crown Prince Tungi (Tungi), chose in this regard to change the Tongan time so that Tonga could be called the land where time begins.

The Legislative Assembly approved this choice. But some of the older, more conservative MPs from the outlying islands objected: “If we move the time forward by 40 minutes at midnight on December 31, as Your Royal Highness wishes, will we lose 40 minutes?”

To which the crown prince presented a win-win argument: “But in this case, remember that during the “weekly prayer of the year” (see. Note. website) we will be the first people on Earth to perform the morning prayer".

Since 1974, when New Zealand began to switch to daylight saving time, during the four summer months this country is also in the zone when its time is 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. But Tonga is still the country in the world that is the first to welcome every new day of every week, every month and every year, ”the Tongan newspaper proudly noted.

So, time in Tonga is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, today also called Coordinated Universal Time UTC) +13 hours .

In addition, neighboring Tonga and another island country - the Republic of Kiribati (Republic of Kiribati) can also be considered the first country to celebrate the New Year and the new day. However, Kiribati, due to its length, is simultaneously in three time zones in relation to Greenwich time, namely in the zones +12, +13, +14, and therefore cannot be considered a country that is entirely the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day.

A still frame from the New Year's (2000) broadcast of the American television company ABC, which shows the Dateline (or (otherwise) International Date Line), as well as the first three countries in the world that are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day: the Kingdom of Tonga ( Time zone: GMT plus 13); as well as part of the islands of the Republic of Kiribati (namely, those related to time zones plus 13, plus 14); and besides this, the New Zealand possession is Chatham Island (Chatham, its winter time: plus 12 h.

A still frame from the New Year's (2000) program of the American television company ABC, which shows the Dateline (Dateline, or (otherwise) International Date Line), as well as the first three countries in the world that are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day:

Kingdom of Tonga (Time zone: GMT plus 13);

as well as part of the islands of the Republic of Kiribati (namely, those related to time zones plus 13, plus 14);

and besides this, the New Zealand possession is Chatham Island (Chatham, its winter time: plus 12 hours 45 minutes).

Quite close to Tonga is the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island, where the difference with Greenwich time is +12 hours 45 minutes, i.e. 15 minutes slower than Tongan. However, in the summer, Chatham switches to summer time and then the difference with Greenwich time is already +13 hours 45 minutes, and therefore 45 minutes more than Tongan.

In turn, New Zealand has winter time (Greenwich time +12), and summer time (Greenwich time +13). Thus, as noted in the Tonga Chronicle article, in summer New Zealand can be said to be the first to meet the new day. But not the New Year, because. Summer time in New Zealand operates from April to September.

A few words about how the New Year is celebrated in Tonga.

The entire first week of the New Year is called Uike Lotu (i.e. "weekly prayer") in Tonga. On every day of this week, members of the Protestant churches, to which the largest part of the population of Tonga belongs (despite the fact that 15% are Catholics), hold meetings and prayers in the morning and evening, and in between prayers there is a solemn meal.

A New Year's treat in Tonga consists of umu (umu, used in the Hawaiian Islands) of the traditional Tongan dish "lu-pulu" (lu pulu), which is beef cooked in taro leaves along with onions and coconut milk. Also, people eat root vegetables, such as taro, and also sweet potatoes, i.e. sweet potato, called in Tonga « kumala» (kumala), and besides this - tapioca (i.e. starchy puree), prepared from the roots of the cassava plant (plants of the Euphorbiaceae family), and seafood.

Young people launch fireworks with the help of cannons in the form of a large bamboo tube lying on the ground, such a cannon is called fana pitu .

Video: A Tongan teenager prepares a fana pitu bamboo cannon for the 2010 New Year's fireworks. Here's how the cannon fires:

On January 1, people also go to the beach and swim, at this time in Tonga the hottest midsummer. On the night of January 1, the King of Tonga arranges a reception for his high-ranking guests.

Video: Tonga, Kiribati and the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island are the first to celebrate the New Year (Here is 2000, and thus, in this case, the new millennium):

The video below is a fragment of the special international TV program "Meeting of the Year 2000" (also known as "2000 Today"), which was broadcast throughout the day on December 31, 1999 around the world and was organized in cooperation with 60 TV broadcasters from different countries, including which included both public - British Broadcasting Corporation (British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC), Polish Television (Telewizja Polska - TVP), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC), Spanish Television (Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española - RTVE) and Public broadcasting service in the USA (Public Broadcasting Service - PBS), and private - American Broadcasting Company in the USA (American Broadcasting Company - ABC), Japanese TV Asahi. Broadcast short excerpts from the program in Russia.

The program was a telethon, consisting of live broadcasts, showing how the countries of the world, one after another, met the new year 2000. Starting from the very first countries where the new day comes: the Kingdom of Tonga and the Republic of Kiribati, as well as the New Zealand possession - Chatham Islands.

So the last minutes 1999 . and meeting 2000 . in Tonga, Kiribati and Chatham Island.

It first shows how the then King of Tonga, Taufaahau Tupou IV, addresses his subjects with a welcoming speech, and the subjects pray (as part of the so-called "weekly prayer") and sing religious songs.

At the same time, dancers and singers from the neighboring Republic of Kiribati, who came to the Kiribati-owned and usually uninhabited Caroline Island Atoll, officially renamed the Millennium Island by the government of this republic in 1999, held a ceremony to welcome the new millennium and year, in the presence of the leadership of the republic and journalists. Caroline Atoll is the very first territory of Kiribati, where the New Year and the new day come. It is also the first territory in the world to have a new date, as The atoll lies next to the Dateline, or International Date Line. Until 1995, the atoll was one of the last places on earth to welcome a new day. The date line ran to the east, and thus Kiribati was a country where new and old days went simultaneously. Now all three time zones of Kiribati are in the zone of one current day, in other words, at the initiative of the government of Kiribati, the Date Line has been pushed back.

Kiribati dancers performed traditional dances during a televised ceremony mwaie as well as songs. In addition, a traditional canoe was launched into the water, driven by an old man and a boy, with a torch. The descent of the canoe symbolized the hope for a new journey - from the past to the future.

Also in the program it was shown how the year 2000 was met on the New Zealand possession - Chatham Island. There were both Europeans and representatives of the Maori - the indigenous population of the islands of New Zealand, who once inhabited Chatham.

For our video, the broadcast of the TV program “Meeting of the Year 2000” (“2000 Today”) was taken from the airs of Polish Television (Telewizja Polska - TVP, the broadcast was on the second TV channel of this broadcaster) and the American Broadcasting Company (American Broadcasting Company - ABC (USA). Comments, respectively, were in Polish and English.

This material is based on an article in the former government-run Tongan English-language newspaper Tonga Chronicle and an article from the Internet community Hubpages (in both cases translated from English by the site), as well as other sources;

One of the most joyful holidays is approaching - the New Year. Where on the planet will meet the New Year 2010 first?

- Time zone UTC+14 - Kiritimati Islands, Kiribas

The first territory to celebrate the New Year will be the Christmas Islands (Christmas isl.), the chain of islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati), the state of Kiribati (Kiribati-pronounced as Kiribas).

The state of Kiribas (also called the Gilbert Islands) is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and stretches from the eastern to the western hemisphere.

Until 2004, the Date Change Line - approximately passing along the 180 meridian - divided the state of Kiribas (Kiribati) into 2 different dates, when the islands in the western part of the state were ahead of the time of the eastern part by 24 hours.

In 2005, the government of Kiribas (Kiribati) decided to move the Date Line several thousand kilometers to the east, thereby collecting all of its 3 time zones on one side of the Date Line (roughly like the eastern part of Chukotka, located in the Western Hemisphere).

After this decision, the eastern islands of Kiribati (Kiribati) moved from the time zones of the Western Hemisphere GMT-10 and GMT-11 (the “-” sign displays the time behind Greenwich Mean Time by 10 and 11 hours) to new time zones - GMT + 13 and GMT + 14 ("+" means 13 and 14 hours ahead of GMT).

Previously, all territories located in the region of the 180th meridian (Chukotka, New Zealand, Fiji) could be conditionally considered the first to celebrate the New Year.

In today's world of Daylight Savings Time and the shift of the Kiribas National Date Line, the arrangements of the clock hands on New Year's Eve have changed a bit.

So, when the Christmas Islands (Christmas isl.) will celebrate the New Year 2010, the time in Kamchatka and Chukotka will be 22 hours (December 31), the time in Vladivostok will be 20 hours, in Moscow - 13 hours, in London (Greenwich) - 10 hours on the morning of December 31st. It is not difficult to add 14 hours difference from the Christmas Islands (Christmas isl.) to 10 o'clock in the morning in Greenwich time - to get midnight - New Year's Eve in Kiritimati (Kiritimati).

- Time zone UTC+13:45 - Chatham Islands, New Zealand

15 minutes after the arrival of the New Year on the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) - the second in line for the celebration of the New Year will be the islands of Chatham, New Zealand. These islands are 12h45 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. Taking into account summer time in the southern hemisphere, they are 13h45 ahead of Greenwich Mean Time at the time of the meeting of the New Year 2010.

- Time zone UTC + 13 - New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Phoenix Islands

In third place on New Year's Eve (or 13 hours ahead of GMT) are New Zealand (DST), Fiji (DST), Tonga Islands (13 hours ahead of GMT all year round) and the Phoenix Islands, already the mentioned state of Kiribas (Kiribati).

So, when there is a meeting of the New Year in Wellington, the time in Kamchatka and Chukotka will be 23 hours, in Magadan - 22 hours, in Vladivostok and Sakhalin - 21 hours, in Moscow - 14 hours, in London - 11 am, in New York - 6 am, in Los Angeles - 3:00 am December 31st.

NEW YEAR COMES TO RUSSIA

— Russia time zone MSK +9 (UTC+12) — Kamchatka, Chukotka

The fourth place (or with a difference of 12 hours from GMT) in the celebration of the New Year 2010 falls on Chukotka and Kamchatka, the islands of Nauru, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, and the last is the third time zone of the state of Kiribas (Kiribati) - with the capital Tarawa.

When there will be a meeting of the New Year in Anadyr and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the time will be 11 pm in Magadan, 10 pm in Vladivostok and Sakhalin, 3 pm in Moscow, 12 am in London, 7 am in New York, 4 am in Los Angeles, in Hawaii - 2:00 am on December 31st.

Residents of Honolulu (Hawaii) will celebrate the New Year 22 hours later than the residents of Chukotka and Kamchatka. Next, the New Year will come to Norfolk Island (Australia) - which is 30 minutes ahead of Sydney time.

— Russia time zone MSK +8 (UTC+11) — Magadan

New Year in Magadan coincides with New Year in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the main Australian cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart (these cities are in summer time).

When Magadan celebrates the New Year, the time in Vladivostok and Sakhalin will be 11 p.m., in Moscow - 4 p.m., in London - 1 p.m., in New York - 8 a.m., in Los Angeles - 5 a.m., in Hawaii - 3 a.m. on December 31.

— Russia time zone MSK +7 (UTC+10) — Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin

New Year in Vladivostok, Sakhalin and Khabarovsk coincides with New Year in Guam, Papua New Guinea, and the Australian cities of Brisbane, Cairns (these cities do not use summer time).

When Vladivostok celebrates the New Year, the time in Tokyo will be 23:00, in Moscow - 17:00, in London - 14:00, in New York - 9:00 am, in Los Angeles - 6:00 am, in Hawaii - 4:00 am on December 31st.

— Russia time zone MSK +6 (UTC+9) — Chita, Yakutsk, Blagoveshchensk

New Year in Chita, Yakutsk coincides with New Year in Japan, Korea, Palau, and the Australian city of Perth (does not use summer time).

When Chita and Yakutsk will celebrate the New Year, the time in Beijing will be 11 pm, in Moscow - 6 pm, in London - 3 pm, in New York - 10 am, in Los Angeles - 7 am, in Hawaii - 5 am on December 31.

— Russia time zone MSK +5 (UTC+8) — Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude

The New Year in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude coincides with the New Year in China, Singapore, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Bali (Indonesia).

When Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude will celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 19:00, in London - 16:00, in New York - 11:00 in the morning, in Los Angeles - 8:00 in the morning, in Hawaii - 6:00 in the morning on December 31.

In the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 6 am on January 1, 2010, and in New Zealand it will be 5 am on January 1, 2010.

— Russia time zone MSK +4 (UTC+7) — Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, Kyzyl

New Year in Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo coincides with New Year in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.

When Krasnoyarsk celebrates the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 20:00, in London - 17:00, in New York - 12:00 in the afternoon, in Los Angeles - 9:00 in the morning, in Hawaii - 7:00 in the morning on December 31.

In the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 7 am on January 1, 2010, and in New Zealand it will be 6 am on January 1, 2010.

— Russia time zone MSK +3 (UTC+6) — Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul

New Year in Novosibirsk and Omsk coincides with New Year on the islands of Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean), Bhutan, Astana.

When Novosibirsk and Omsk will celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 21:00, in London - 18:00, in New York - 13:00, in Los Angeles - 10:00 in the morning, in Hawaii - 8:00 in the morning on December 31.

In the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 8 am January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 7 am January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 5 am January 1, 2010.

When the New Year will be celebrated in Kathmandu, the time in New Zealand will be 7:15 a.m. on January 1, in Vladivostok it will be 4:15 a.m., in Beijing - 2:15 a.m., Moscow will be 21:15 p.m., Los Angeles - 10:15 am, Hawaii - 8:15 am December 31st.

After Nepal, the New Year will come to India and Sri Lanka, which are 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

When the New Year will be celebrated in Delhi and Mumbai, the time in New Zealand will be 7:30 on January 1, in Vladivostok it will be 4:30 in the morning, in Beijing - 2:30 on January 1, in Moscow it will be 21:30 on December 31, in London - 18:30, in New York - 13:30 in Los Angeles - 10:30 in the morning, in Hawaii - 8:30 in the morning on December 31.

— Russia time zone MSK +2 (UTC+5) — Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Tyumen, Ufa

New Year in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk coincides with New Year in the Maldives, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan.

When Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk will celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 22:00, in London - 19:00, in New York - 14:00, in Los Angeles - 11:00 in the morning, in Hawaii - 9:00 in the morning on December 31.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 9 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 8 am on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 7 am on January 1, 2010.

— Russia time zone MSK +1 (UTC+4) — Izhevsk, Samara, Togliatti

New Year in Izhevsk and Samara coincides with New Year in Dubai, Seychelles, about. Mauritius.

When Izhevsk and Samara will celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 23:00, in London - 20:00, in New York - 15:00, in Los Angeles - 12:00 in the afternoon, in Hawaii - 10:00 in the morning on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 10 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 9 am on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 8 am on January 1, 2010.

— Russia time zone MSK (UTC+3) — Moscow, St. Petersburg

New Year in Moscow and St. Petersburg coincides with New Year in Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Madagascar.

When Moscow and St. Petersburg will celebrate the New Year, the time in London will be 21:00, in New York - 16:00, in Los Angeles - 13:00, in Hawaii - 11:00 in the morning on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 11 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 10 am on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 9 am on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 8 am on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 7 am 1 January 2010.

— Russia time zone MSK -1 (UTC+2) — Kaliningrad

New Year in Kaliningrad coincides with New Year in Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Greece, Syria, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia (summer time).

When Kaliningrad celebrates the New Year, the time in London will be 22:00, in New York - 17:00, in Los Angeles - 14:00, in Hawaii - 12:00 on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 12 noon on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 11 am on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 10 am on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 9 am on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 8 am 1 January 2010.

- UTC + 1 time zone - France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway

When Paris and Rome will celebrate the New Year, the time in London will be 11 p.m., in New York - 6 p.m., in Los Angeles - 3 p.m., in Hawaii - 1 p.m. on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 13:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 12:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 11:00 in the morning on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 10:00 in the morning on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 9:00 in the morning on January 1 2010.

- UTC time zone - United Kingdom, Iceland, Portugal, Canary Islands.

When London and Lisbon will celebrate the New Year, the time in New York will be 19:00, in Los Angeles - 16:00, in Hawaii - 14:00 on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 14:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 13:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 12:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 11:00 am on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 10:00 am on January 1, 2010 .

Next, the New Year will come in the islands of Cape Verde and Azores (UTC-1), which are 1 hour behind Greenwich Mean Time; in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and San Raulo (UTC-2) - 2 hours behind GMT, Chile and Argentina (UTC-3) - 3 hours behind GMT; about. Newfoundland (Canada), which is 3h30 behind Greenwich Mean Time (UTC-3:30); Halifax (Canada), Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico (UTC-4); Venezuela - which is 4h30 behind Greenwich Mean Time (UTC-4:30);

- Time zone UTC-5 - New York, Cuba, Panama

When New York and Havana will celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 21:00, in Hawaii - 19:00 on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 19:00 January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 18:00 January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 17:00 January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 16:00 January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 15:00 January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 8 am January 1, 2010, in London - 5 am January 1, 2010.

- Time zone UTC-6 - Chicago, Houston, Mexico City

When Chicago and Houston will celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 22:00, in Hawaii - 20:00 on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 20:00 January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 19:00 January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 18:00 January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 17:00 January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 16:00 January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 9 am January 1, 2010, in London - 6 am January 1, 2010.

- Time zone UTC-7 - Denver, Albuquerque, Calgary

When Denver and Calgary (Canada) will celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 23h, in Hawaii - 21h on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 21:00 January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 20:00 January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 19:00 January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 18:00 January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 17:00 January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 10 am January 1, 2010, in London - 7 am January 1, 2010.

- Time zone UTC-8 - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Vancouver, about. Pitcairn

When Los Angeles and Vancouver will celebrate the New Year, the time in Hawaii will be 22h on December 31, the time in Samoa and Niue (Niue) will be 21h on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 22:00 January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 21:00 January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 20:00 January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 19:00 January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 18:00 January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 11 am January 1, 2010, in London - 8 am January 1, 2010.

- Time zone UTC-9 - Anchorage (Alaska)

When Anchorage celebrates the New Year, the time in Hawaii will be 23h on December 31st, the time in Samoa and Niue will be 22h on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be 23h January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 22h January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 21h January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 20h January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 19h January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 12 noon January 1, 2010, in London - 9 am January 1, 2010.

- Time zone UTC-10 - Hawaii, Cook Islands, Tahiti

When Honolulu and Papeete will celebrate the New Year, the time in the islands of Samoa and Niue (Niue) will be 23h on December 31st.

On the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) it will already be midnight on January 1-2, 2010, in New Zealand - 23h January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 22h January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 21h January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 20h January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 1 pm January 1, 2010, in London - 10 am January 1, 2010.

— Time zone UTC-11 — Samoa (Apia), American Samoa (Pago), Niue (Niue), Midway

The latest territories to say goodbye to the old 2009 and welcome the New Year 2010 will be Samoa and American Samoa, Niue and Midway Atoll.

When Samoa and Niue will celebrate the New Year, the time on the islands of Kiritimati (Kiritimati) will already be 1 am on January 2, 2010, in New Zealand it will be midnight on January 1-2, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 23 hours on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 22 hours 1 January 2010, in Vladivostok - 21:00 January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 14:00 January 1, 2010, in London - 11:00 am January 1, 2010.

Alexander Krivenyshev (World Time Zone)

Based on materials http://www.deita.ru/?news,142424

When we still have the last feverish preparations for the New Year, some inhabitants of the Earth have not only met it and had a good time, but by this time they even managed to relax and sleep. For there are places in the world where the New Year is celebrated much earlier than ours.

Under the cut, you will see those places where the New Year is celebrated first on our planet.

1. Traditionally, the first to meet the New Year 2015 in Kiribati. And more specifically, on the Linear Islands, which are located to the east than the other islands of this country. In 1994, one of the presidential candidates promised the citizens that if he won the elections, he would make sure that Kiribati would be the first to celebrate the New Year in the whole world. He won and kept his word: he moved the demarcation line of time (a conditional line on a map of time zones). Since that time, Kiribati has been divided into three time zones, and in the easternmost of them, midnight comes 14 hours earlier than in London. (Photo: DS355/flickr.com).

2. In the same time zone as Kiribati is Tokelau, which includes a group of islands consisting of three coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo. It is a dependent territory of New Zealand. The time zone change here happened quite recently, in 2011, and the main reason for this was the problem of interaction in contacts with New Zealand, since the island used to be on the other side of the demarcation time line. (Photo: Haanee Naeem/flickr.com).

3. An hour later, the New Year will be celebrated by the people of Samoa. In 2011, there was also a change of time zone, the date of December 30, 2011 was absent in the Samoan calendar. This was done to better interact and develop cooperation with Australia and New Zealand. Interestingly, the previous time zone change was carried out in 1892 in order to adjust the time to California. (Photo: Savai'i Island/flickr.com).

4. At the same time as in Samoa, the people of Tonga, an island located one third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii, south of Samoa, will celebrate the New Year. (Photo: pintxomoruno/flickr.com).

5. The next to celebrate the New Year are the inhabitants of the Chatham Islands. This small archipelago, which consists of two inhabited islands - Chatham and Pitt. Other small islands have the status of reservations and are generally inaccessible to both residents of the islands and tourists. Interestingly, Chatham Island has its own time zone, which is 45 minutes (less) different from New Zealand time. (Photo: Phil Pledger/flickr.com).

6. After the inhabitants of the Chatam Islands, the next New Year 2015 will be celebrated in New Zealand. (Photo: Philipp Klinger Photography/flickr.com).

7. At the same time as in New Zealand, they will celebrate the New Year in Fiji. This is a state that is located on 322 islands and islets of volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs, of which only 110 islands are inhabited. (Photo: brad/flickr.com).

8. The first mainland state whose inhabitants will celebrate the New Year 2015 (simultaneously with the inhabitants of New Zealand and Fiji) is Russia, or rather, the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located in the southeastern part of the volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula. (Photo: Jasja/flickr.com).

9. In the same time zone as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, there are numerous small islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean: Tuvalu, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Wake and the Marshall Islands. Photo: Nauru island. (Photo: Hadi Zaher/flickr.com).

10. We travel further and move west. The next New Year will be celebrated by the inhabitants of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located in the Western Pacific Ocean, in Melanesia, about 1,400 kilometers east of Australia and 1,500 kilometers northwest of New Zealand. (Photo: Tonton des Iles-Bye bye Everyone/flickr.com).

Countries that celebrate the New Year at the same time as New Caledonia are: Vanuatu, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Solomon Islands.

11. Together with New Caledonia, the New Year 2015 will be met by residents of another Russian city - Magadan. (Photo: Tramp/flickr.com).

12. On our journey, we finally arrived in Australia, where the first to celebrate the New Year, of course, are the inhabitants of the east coast - Sydney and Melbourne. (Photo: El Mundo, Economía y Negocios/flickr.com).

13. Simultaneously with the residents of Sydney and Melbourne, the New Year will be celebrated in Vladivostok and on such Pacific islands as Guam, the Mariana Islands and Papua New Guinea. Pictured: Guam Island. (Photo: orgazmo/flickr.com).

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