Editing New Year (section)

==Time zones==
Because of the division of the globe into [[time zone]]s, the new year moves progressively around the globe as the start of the day ushers in the New Year. The first time zone to usher in the New Year, just west of the [[International Date Line]], is located in the [[Line Islands]], a part of the nation of [[Kiribati]], and has a time zone 14 hours ahead of [[UTC]].<ref>{{cite web |author=World Time Zone |title=UTC+14 |url=http://www.worldtimezone.com/utc/utc+1400.html |access-date=1 Sep 2014 |archive-date=2 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702093842/http://www.worldtimezone.com/utc/utc+1400.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author=Harris, Aimee | date=April 1999 | title=Millennium: Date Line Politics | work=Honolulu Magazine | url=http://www.trussel.com/kir/dateline.htm | access-date=14 June 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628045504/http://trussel.com/kir/dateline.htm | archive-date=28 June 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author=Greenwich| year=2008| title=Greenwich Meantime, Kiribati| work=Kiribati Map| url=http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/pacific/kiribati/map.htm| access-date=27 February 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011135742/http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/pacific/kiribati/map.htm| archive-date=11 October 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref> All other time zones are 1 to 25 hours behind, most in the previous day (December 31); on [[American Samoa]] and [[Midway Atoll|Midway]], it is still 11 pm on December 30. These are among the last inhabited places to observe New Year. However, uninhabited outlying US territories [[Howland Island]] and [[Baker Island]] are designated as lying within the time zone 12 hours behind UTC, the last places on Earth to see the arrival of January 1. These small coral islands are found about midway between Hawaii and Australia, about 1,000 miles west of the Line Islands. This is because the International Date Line is a composite of local time zone arrangements, which winds through the Pacific Ocean, allowing each locale to remain most closely connected in time with the nearest or largest or most convenient political and economic locales with which each associate. By the time Howland Island sees the new year, it is 2 am on January 2 in the Line Islands of Kiribati.