Outside the Beltway

The World’s Biggest New Year’s Eve Party

Doug Mataconis · Saturday, December 31, 2011 · 1 comment

If you look at this world time zone map, one zone, which we’ve highlighted it in yellow has, as you can see, all of China, all 1.3 billion of ’em, plus a hunk of Siberia, plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, a chunk of Indonesia, Timor and a cut of Australia. Altogether, that’s got to be at least 1.5 billion people who will greet 2012 at the very same moment.

Looking at the map, I must say that’s gotta be a lot of confetti to clean up:

H/T: Andrew Sullivan

FILED UNDER: Open Forum, Andrew Sullivan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan

About Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed far too young in July 2021.

Comments

James in LA says:

Sunday, 1 January 2012 at 10:51

Interesting that China declares for itself a single time zone spanning four, and a piece of a fifth.