what is thelast continent to celebrate new years at midnight how do the time zones work?

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the last,what continent celebrate first and what continent is last

Answer 1

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first - 31 Dec 2009 - 10:00 - Kiritimati (Kiribati - Christmas Islands)Alofi (Niue)

last - 1 Jan 2010 - 11:00 - Alofi (Niue), Pago Pago (U.S.A. - American Samoa)

Time Zones

Everyone on the planet wants the sun to be at its highest point in the sky (crossing the meridian) at noon. If there were just one time zone, this would be impossible because the Earth rotates 15 degrees every hour. The idea behind multiple time zones is to divide the world into 24 15-degree slices and set the clocks accordingly in each zone. All of the people in a given zone set their clocks the same way, and each zone is one hour different from the next.

In the continental United States there are four time zones (click here for a map): Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. When it is noon in the Eastern time zone, it is 11 a.m. in the Central time zone, 10 a.m. in the Mountain time zone and 9 a.m. in the Pacific time zone.

All time zones are measured from a starting point centered at England's Greenwich Observatory. This point is known as the Greenwich Meridian or the Prime Meridian. Time at the Greenwich Meridian is known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Universal Time. The Eastern time zone in the United States is designated as GMT minus five hours. When it is noon in the Eastern time zone, it is 5 p.m. at the Greenwich Observatory. The International Date Line (IDL) is located on the opposite side of the planet from the Greenwich Observatory.

Source(s): www.howstuffworks.com/time3.htm

Answer 2

try this website and look at the map it will easily resolve ur problem and the last continent to celebrate new year would be north america

try this site: http://www.worldtimezone.com/

Source(s): http://www.worldtimezone.com/