# Celebrity Death Pool 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098 "2015-12-01T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 175
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/175 "2015-12-28T22:12:46Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I had been wondering about that as well. Since dates of death are almost always published, but times of death frequently aren’t, that could present problems if someone died on January 1 in New Zealand (but may have died while it was still December 31 in Chicago) or died on December 31 in Hawaii (but may have died when it was already January 1 in Chicago). In the past, the date of a celebrity’s death was based on local time. Has that changed? > [@The Celebrity Death Pool 2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2964): > > **Baker** is the boss and what she says goes, but I always figured if it’s 2013 where the person died, then it’s good only for the 2013 game. If you’re celebrating New Year’s in Tokyo and drop dead after midnight Tokyo time, then you died in 2013, even if it won’t be 2013 for a while by Chicago time. > [@The Celebrity Death Pool 2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2965): > > I think that **a35362** ’s figuring is correct. Submissions are different from actual deaths(thank heavens) So Down Under posters will be submitting entries on their Jan. !. But if, say, their head of state died on their Jan. 1, that would only be for 2013. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098)._