Stupid question if you don’t read the rest.
What I am going for is, if you are in New York, Chicago, Denver or LA, what time is it in those cities when the first time zone (aka International Date Line) hits the year 2000?
I’m in the Eastern time zone (same as New York). We’re 5 hours behind GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). That means it will be 7 PM here.
Chicago will be 6 PM, Denver 5 PM, and LA 4 PM.
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Now I am confused…because GMT would be considered 12:00 pm on the 31st when the actual beginning of the year 2000?
So if that is the case, for example if New Zealand fits in the 1st time zone to hit Y2k then it will be, 7 am in NY, 6 am in Chicago, 5 am in Denver and 4 am in LA.
Is my thinking correct or am I being a blonde today (don’t worry I am a blonde)?
When they start cheering the New Year in Auckland (or the city goes dark), it will be 7:00 a.m. in New York and 4:00 a.m. in L.A. on December 31, 1999.
Tom~
Inspecting a globe here, it looks like the easternmost segment of the International Dateline runs just east of the western (Russian) shore of the Bering straight. When it’s midnight there it should be 5 AM here in Houston, or 3 AM in LA, or about 9 and a half hours from now.
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I bet NZ and those southern hemisphere countries wish they didn’t go on to Daylight Savings Time and move the clock up an hour.
Least that way they’d be alive for a whole extra hour
It looks like Chief got there first (or did he just get into the bubbly early?).
Let’s all hope bj0rn doesn’t see this thread and throws his Evil Icelandic Math at us 
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“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
Here’s one to throw on the fire here.
Thanks to those that set me straight, however I finally found my Rand McNally World Atlas, circa 1995. I needed some graphical representation for my brain.
Within the atlas it shows all the time zones based on GMT. Cool, they even tell you what time it is when it’s 12:00 am GMT.
To get to the next step in this matter, it is showing Tonga, on the west side of the international date line as 12 -13. If you read the atlas, 12 -12 = 12:00 pm. So, if it’s 12:00 in the most eastern regions Asia, what the heck does 12 -13 mean?
The western most reaches of the time zones (east of the International date line) are calculated at 12 +12, Hawaii is 12 +10 for reference. (aka 2 am)
So, is this specifically done by the government of those islands (near Figi) and within the spectrum of standards, with only 24 hours in a day, how can anyone legitimately do this?
Any thoughts? This is a question I wish I had posted in the General questions area to begin with…this is one of those questions.
Yep, yep, yep. Just had to go and stick my head up my ass one last time in the old millenium. Ya’know, there’s nothing quite as humbling as learning something new that everyone else in the world already knew.
I’d always assumed that the International Date Line and GMT were the same thing. That’s what I get for not bothering to watch the satellite coverage from around the world on New Years the last few years. (Wouldn’t you know it, something educational on TV, and I don’t bother to watch.)
I’m just glad I got it out of my system. My New Years resolution is to never be wrong about anything for the rest of my life.
Wouldn’t -13 indicate Daylight Savings time for -12?
(BTW, Kiribati renamed some rock near the dateline Millennium Island just for the occasion. I have no idea whether they conned any conspicuously rich people into visiting it.)
The International Date Line is just about the opposite side of the planet from Greenwich England. Back in the days when the British Empire ruled the waves, longitude was calculated east or west of the Greenwich observatory. If history had somehow been different and China had become the predominant colonial power of the planet, the IDL would probably have been put in the Atlantic somewhere.