![]() ET Fiji, a small part of eastern Russia, and several more Pacific islands, including the Marshall Islands and TuvaluĨ a.m. ET Much of Australia including Melbourne and Sydney and seven more locations, including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, and New Caledoniaįireworks explode over buildings during New Year's celebrations on Januin Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. ET Most of New Zealand (with a few exceptions) and Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands and some regions of Antarcticaħ a.m. ET Chatham Islands, off the eastern coast of New ZealandĦ a.m. ![]() ET Christmas Island, part of the island nation of Kiribatiĥ:15 a.m. Here’s when places around the world will be ringing in the New Year, relative to East Coast time.ĥ a.m. ![]() So, if you really, really, really love to hum “ Auld Lang Syne,” the list below will get you in the spirit over and over and over again as the day rolls around. In all, there are 39 different local time zones in use across the globe –- some differing by 15 or 30 minutes compared to nearby zones – including two which are more than 12 hours ahead of UTC, which means it takes 26 hours for the entire world to welcome the New Year. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Yuki Iwamura/APĪuthorities prepare for New Year’s Eve in Times Square and across the US as Israel-Hamas war presents elevated threats Explore the dataĬurious about America’s time zones? The National Transportation Atlas Database provides a digital representation of the geographic boundaries for the nine time zones that cover United States and its territories.People gather around the 2024 New Year's Eve numerals displayed in Times Square, Wednesday, Dec. National Council of State Legislatures map shows States with legislative activity to adopt year-round DST. Some States have enacted legislation to adopt DST as their permanent setting, pending federal approval. States can opt-out from DST, but such an exemption must apply to the entire portion of that State that lies in a given time zone (some states, like North Dakota, straddle two different zones). Currently, DST begins the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November. Congress has amended time change laws several times since then. The Standard Time Act of 1918, “an Act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States,” authorized the nation’s first “Daylight Saving Time” to begin on the last Sunday of March and conclude on the last Sunday of October. time zones as recorded in the National Transportation Atlas Database Daylight Saving Time rules begin in 1918 but have changed through the years Department of Transportation to change their time zone.Ĭurrent U.S. The early maps had today’s four time zones for the coterminous states, but the boundaries were very different from today. Time zone map of the United States from 1913, as published in the Chicago Daily News Almanac and Yearbook. British railroads were the first to adopt standard time in 1840, and railroads in the US and Canada adopted standard time zones in 1883. Thank the railroads for our standard time zonesīefore time zones were created, each locality set its own clocks to noon at the time of day when the sun was at its highest position. Virgin Islands) don’t practice the spring and autumn time change. territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Some states (Hawaii, Arizona-except for the Navajo Nation within the state) and U.S. Last weekend, millions of Americans turned back their clocks one hour to mark the return from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics.National Transportation Knowledge Network.National Transportation Library Main - Library. ![]() Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS).Transportation Statistics Annual Reports.Local Area Transportation Characteristics (LATCH dataset).Government Transportation Financial Statistics.Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW).Electric Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (eVIUS). ![]()
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