[tz] Time zones in the news

[Jonathan Leffler]

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 at 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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