New Delhi: Google often celebrates special days through Google Doodle, but today’s Google Doodle is the most special. Because today New Year’s Eve is being celebrated through this. Today is a time to reminisce about 2022 and look forward to a fresh start in 2023. To celebrate this, Google has created an animated doodle.
New years eve
New Year’s Eve is celebrated all over the world. People also wait for a long time for this celebration. Let us tell you that in the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year, falls on 31 December. This day is celebrated as New Year’s Eve all over the world.
Waiting for the clock
Significantly, this day is celebrated all over the world with parties, celebrations, and fireworks in the evening. Everyone waits for the clock to strike midnight. As soon as the new year starts, leaving the bad habits of their life, adopt some good habits and people also resolve to fulfill their personal goals.
In view of the increasing cases of coronavirus in the neighboring country China, there is concern over the epidemic situation in India. The government has also appealed to follow COVID-19-appropriate behavior during the celebrations. Many states have made certain rules and regulations for the celebration.
Which country celebrates New Year first?
Most Brits look to Australia as the first country to see the New Year but this is not the case.
Kiritimati Island – also known as Christmas Island – and a string of 10 other mostly uninhabited islands in the central Pacific Ocean will be the first to ring in 2023.
Despite lying directly south of Hawaii, Kiritimati Island will celebrate the New Year nearly a full day earlier.
They see in the New Year while Brits are still sipping their morning coffee at 10 am GMT on December 31.
At 11 am GMT the tiny Pacific island of Tonga heads into a fresh year along with New Zealand and Samoa.
Where will the New Year arrive last?
As the chain reaction of time zones celebrating causes somewhat of a ripple effect across the Earth, there always has to be someone who has to wait for the longest.
The last place to ring in 2023 will be Baker Island and Howland Island, which will see the New Year at 12 pm GMT on January 1.
Albeit uninhabited islands, there may not be many party poppers or champagne corks seeing the New Year in, but the day technically ends an hour later in the US territories.
Using London time (GMT), this is when the world will welcome 2023:
December 31
10 am – Samoa and Christmas Island/Kiribati
10.15 am – New Zealand
12 pm – Fiji and Eastern Russia
1 pm – Eastern Australia (Melbourne and Sydney)
2 pm – Central Australia (Brisbane, Darwin, and Adelaide)
3 pm – Japan, South Korea, and North Korea
3.15 pm – Western Australia (Perth and Eucla)
4 pm – China, Philippines, Singapore
5 pm – Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia
5.30 pm – Myanmar and Cocos Islands
6 pm – Bangladesh
6.15 pm – Nepal
6.30 pm – India and Sri Lanka
7 pm – Pakistan
8 pm – Azerbaijan
8.30 pm – Iran
9 pm – Turkey, Iraq, Kenya, and Western Russia
10 pm – Greece, Romania, South Africa, Hungary, and eastern European cities
11 pm – Germany, France, Italy, Algeria, Belgium, Spain
Midnight – UK, Ireland, Ghana, Iceland, Portugal
January 1
1 am – Cape Verde and the Spanish Isles
2 am – Eastern Brazil, South Georgia, and Sandwich Islands
3 am – Argentina, remaining regions in Brazil, Chile, Paraguay
3.30 am – Newfoundland and Labrador/Canada
4am – Eastern Canada, Bolivia, Puerto Rico
5 am – Eastern Standard Time in the US – New York, Washington, Detroit, and Cuba
6 am – Central Standard Time in the US – Chicago
7 am – Mountain Standard Time in the US – Colorado, Arizona
8 am – Pacific Standard Time in the US – LA, Nevada
9 am – Alaska and French Polynesia
10 am – Hawaii, Tahiti, and Cook Island
11 am – American Samoa
12 pm – Baker Island, Howland Island
