What time does the New Year's celebration start???

[mdr55]

Okay. The question I have is: for those living in the Eastern Standard Time zone- New Year's starts at 12 a.m. Jan. 1.
But if you live in a different time zone like the West Coast it's 8 or 9 p.m. Dec. 31 (at least that's what they show on t.v. when they go to different parts of the country when they have the countdown). It just seems weird that people celebrate New Year's at different times.
Has anyone celebrated New Year's in a different time zone? And Why 12 a.m. EST instead of 12 a.m. PST?

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[MizzleTizzle]

Assuming we're all on EST Eastern Standard Time, no more Daylight Savings, thats for sure, we are five, 5, cinco hours behind World Time. World Time in Greenwich Mean Time aka Universal Time blah blah blah.

Anyway, while people on the east coast celebrate at midnight, people in London are five hours into it already.

New Zealanders get the New Year a full 18 hours before we do. Sydney = 16 earlier

Bangkok = 12 hours earlier Baghdad 8 earlier, etc...

We on the east coast are already 'late' in the Universal Day, but ahead of the Central, Mountain, Pacific, etc... Cali gets it 3 hours later, as always...

Anchorage 4 hours later Honolulu 5 hours later, and then Boom, it's tomorrow...

[ADF]

People in other parts of the country celebrate New Year's at midnight as well.. see that other stuff is for the TV. Just because Dustin Diamond tells Dick Clark that the kids are going wild in Los Angeles doesn't mean everybody in the Pacific Time Zone is celebrating with him.

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This message was edited by ADF on 12-20-03 @ 10:48 PM

[mdr55]

Thanks.


But do they just replay Dick Clark's countdown on the West Coast on tape delay then?? What do they show at 12 a.m. there?

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This message was edited by mdr55 on 12-30-03 @ 11:12 PM

[mikeyboy]

ut do they just replay Dick Clark's countdown on the West Coast on tape delay then??


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[reeshy]

What time does the New Year's celebration start???


4 days ago!!!!

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[Arienette]

this just reminded me of something sort of related... i was just thinking about new year's 2000 (although it probably should have been 2001, but we don't need to get into that again), when all these people were so worried that the world was going to implode or something at midnight. now, how exactly is that supposed to work? does the world end at different times in different time zones? i was surprised when they broadcast the new year's celebrations in other parts of the world half a day before our's, and people were still worried, even though those places were fine. dummies.

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[wilee]

people were so worried that the world was going to implode or something at midnight. now, how exactly is that supposed to work?
You've never heard of a galactic standard week? The Arquillians can explain it to you.

Besides, we're still in 1987 G.S.C. right now...

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[The_Oracle]

What time does the New Year's celebration start???


When the mescaline kicks in.

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[JustJon]

People in other parts of the country celebrate New Year's at midnight as well.. see that other stuff is for the TV. Just because Dustin Diamond tells Dick Clark that the kids are going wild in Los Angeles doesn't mean everybody in the Pacific Time Zone is celebrating with him.
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