It’s already 2008 in Australia and parts of the Far East!
These are the times (UTC and EST) that different parts of the world enter 2008:
1000 UTC/5 am: Kiribati (FIRST to enter 2008)
1015 UTC/5:15 am: Chatham Islands
1100 UTC/6 am: New Zealand
1200 UTC/7 am: Far eastern Russia
1215 UTC/7:15 am: Norfolk Island
1300 UTC/8 am: Eastern Australia (incl. Sydney)
1330 UTC/8:30 am: Southern Australia (incl. Adelaide)
1400 UTC/9 am: Parts of northern Australia (incl. Brisbane), parts of Siberia, Papua New Guinea, Guam
1430 UTC/9:30 am: Northern Territory of Australia (incl. Darwin)
1500 UTC/10 am: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, eastern Indonesia
1600 UTC/11 am: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, central Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, other areas (NEXT to enter 2008)
1700 UTC/12 pm: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, western Indonesia, other areas
1730 UTC/12:30 pm: Myanmar
1800 UTC/1 pm: Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, parts of southern Russia
1815 UTC/1:15 pm: Nepal
1830 UTC/1:30 pm: India, Sri Lanka
1900 UTC/2 pm: Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Maldives, other areas
1930 UTC/2:30 pm: Afghanistan
2000 UTC/3 pm: United Arab Emirates, Oman, Armenia, Seychelles, other areas
2030 UTC/3:30 pm: Iran
2100 UTC/4 pm: Iraq, Russia (incl. Moscow), Bahrain, Kuwait, eastern Africa, other areas
2200 UTC/5 pm: Israel, Greece, western Russia, eastern Europe, South Africa, other areas
2300 UTC/6 pm: Western Europe (incl. France, Germany and other areas), central Africa
0000 UTC/7 pm: Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, western Africa
0100 UTC/8 pm: Azores, Cape Verde
0200 UTC/9 pm: Argentina, eastern Brazil, Uruguay
0300 UTC/10 pm: Chile, Paraguay, Greenland, western Brazil
0330 UTC/10:30 pm: Newfoundland
0400 UTC/11 pm: Atlantic Time Zone (Atlantic Canada, much of the Caribbean, Bermuda), Bolivia
0430 UTC/11:30 pm: Venezuela
0500 UTC/12 am: Eastern Time Zone (eastern US, mid-eastern Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas), Panama, Peru, Colombia
0600 UTC/1 am: Central Time Zone (central US, mid-western Canada, much of Mexico, most of Central America)
0700 UTC/2 am: Mountain Time Zone (western US interior, western Canada interior, western Mexico)
0800 UTC/3 am: Pacific Time Zone (west coast of US and Canada, Baja California peninsula of Mexico)
0900 UTC/4 am: Most of Alaska, Gambier Islands
0930 UTC/4:30 am: Marquesas Islands
1000 UTC/5 am: Hawaii, Aleutian Islands, Cook Islands, Tahiti
1100 UTC/6 am: Samoa (LAST to enter 2008)
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