<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pray enlighten me: why is it possible to decide when the New Year starts at the South Pole but not at the North Pole?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:D <img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail"><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Arthur David Olson wrote:<br>
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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....<br>
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Bennett M. When is it New Year's at the North Pole? Cryopolitics 2014-12-30 <a href="http://cryopolitics.com/2014/12/30/when-is-it-new-years-at-the-north-pole/" target="_blank">http://cryopolitics.com/2014/<u></u>12/30/when-is-it-new-years-at-<u></u>the-north-pole/</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2013.0521 - <a href="http://dbi.perl.org" target="_blank">http://dbi.perl.org</a><br>"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."</div></div>
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