Time zones in the news
"How to celebrate New Year’s in every time zone" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/how-to-celebrate-... (The article covers the traditional 24 time zones rather than those of TZDB.) @dashdashado
On 31/12/14 23:52, Arthur David Olson wrote:
(The article covers the traditional 24 time zones rather than those of TZDB.)
Of cause the other new problem is the substantial delay in HD TV transmissions. One can toast the new year twice even in a single location ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
Arthur David Olson wrote:
"How to celebrate New Year’s in every time zone"
Mia Bennett pointed out in her blog that there's one place on the planet where the start of the New Year is undefined, namely the North Pole. One could hold a pretty wild New Year's Eve party there.... Bennett M. When is it New Year's at the North Pole? Cryopolitics 2014-12-30 http://cryopolitics.com/2014/12/30/when-is-it-new-years-at-the-north-pole/
Pray enlighten me: why is it possible to decide when the New Year starts at the South Pole but not at the North Pole? :D [?] On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Arthur David Olson wrote:
"How to celebrate New Year’s in every time zone"
Mia Bennett pointed out in her blog that there's one place on the planet where the start of the New Year is undefined, namely the North Pole. One could hold a pretty wild New Year's Eve party there....
Bennett M. When is it New Year's at the North Pole? Cryopolitics 2014-12-30 http://cryopolitics.com/2014/12/30/when-is-it-new-years-at- the-north-pole/
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On Fri 2015-01-02T14:39:16 -0800, Jonathan Leffler hath writ:
Pray enlighten me: why is it possible to decide when the New Year starts at the South Pole but not at the North Pole?
There are people at the South Pole. (Aren't they on Christchurch time?) -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
On 01/02/2015 02:39 PM, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
why is it possible to decide when the New Year starts at the South Pole but not at the North Pole?
Because the South Pole is inhabited, and has a local time (same as its supply base McMurdo). The North Pole is in international waters, where the convention is to use meridians to delimit time zones, and that convention breaks down at the pole. You can see images of past New Year's Eve celebrations at Amundsen-Scott here: http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/pole-gear.html I can sympathize with those photos, as right now I'm working in an unheated office -- UCLA shuts off the heat during winter break to save money.
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