The Country that First Watch and Enjoy Sunrise
- U-Report
The bending of the International Dateline also created the new time zone UTC+14. The new development meant that some places were pushed back by 26 hours or more than a day.
Taking a clue from Kiribati, other island territories such as Tonga moved their standard time forward to UTC+14 and celebrated the New Year at the same time as Kiribati's Line Islands. Although countries are authorized to change their respective time zones, many countries and organizations do not recognize such changes.
The International Dating Line is established by international agreement and there are no treaties associated with the line.
Countries are free to choose whatever time zone they wish to observe. This has led to many date line disputes among the handful of island nations who each claim to be the first to celebrate the New Year.
According to the currently accepted time zone, the first place to welcome the New Year is Kiribati, followed by Tonga, Western Samoa, and Tokelau an hour later.
While at the city level the first is Auckland, the capital of New Zealand. While the last place to celebrate the arrival of the New Year is Baker Island and the uninhabited Howland Island, which are in the United States (US).
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