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Hi,
Looking forward for a better year, we can live in hope.

Happy New Year

Why does 2022 start in NZ....................

And to you, NA!

NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 1:14am
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Why does 2022 start in NZ....................

It doesn't, the first to welcome in the New Year are the residents of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island.

Blame Google if this is not correct!!

Happy New Year

Lets hope it is?

Pity it starts with the war criminal being knighted and various so called celebrities who just do their jobs and 'buggins turn' civil servants being given awards whilst highly effective good folk like Martin Lewis are eventually and obviously reluctantly given lower order gongs.

Al

al_yrpal wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 7:18am Lets hope it is?

Pity it starts with the war criminal being knighted and various so called celebrities who just do their jobs and 'buggins turn' civil servants being given awards whilst highly effective good folk like Martin Lewis are eventually and obviously reluctantly given lower order gongs.

Al

Agreed about Martin Lewis - what do you have to do to get a knighthood (apart from, conform to the established principle whereby the rich get richer and the poor get poorer)? Yeah, I know there's a lot more (or less) to getting a knighthood than that, but it's too often an anachronism.

Happy new year to all on here.

Sir Tony Blair wow! Seems as ridiculous as Lord Frost.
Honours, apart from bravery medals should be a thing of the past.

Happy New Year to everyone.

Strange, having Jan1st in April though. The weather definitely isn't January out there, and it wasn't December last month either.

And a Happy New Year to all from the Scottish Borders!

Mick F wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 9:29am Happy New Year to everyone.

Strange, having Jan1st in April though. The weather definitely isn't January out there, and it wasn't December last month either.

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...

Happy New Year.
Personally I don't care who gets what in the honours list.Leave them to it.

Happy New Year to you all I hope every mile you cycle is an enjoyable one.

As for the honours list in my opinion it is an archaic practice that should have been scrapped a long time ago.

Hi,

SimonCelsa wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 6:15am

NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 1:14am
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Why does 2022 start in NZ....................

It doesn't, the first to welcome in the New Year are the residents of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island.

Blame Google if this is not correct!!

Happy New Year

Okay but why not a different country in a different time zone?
Who decided that it was them first.
For them to be first the calendar must've started with that time zone?

NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 12:07pm Hi,

SimonCelsa wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 6:15am

NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑1 Jan 2022, 1:14am
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Why does 2022 start in NZ....................

It doesn't, the first to welcome in the New Year are the residents of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island.

Blame Google if this is not correct!!

Happy New Year

Okay but why not a different country in a different time zone?
Who decided that it was them first.
For them to be first the calendar must've started with that time zone?

It follows from choosing a point in London for the meridian. After that the date line was set on the far side of the globe. And then some states near it chose to be on one side or the other for local pragmatic reasons.

Jonathan

Hi,
So International date line is where time starts, that is that the day moves forward west from the line which also passes through water only.
If it passed through land masses with high population then keeping time and appointments etc would be fraught with confusement.
You start one day in one town you travel east and you have gone back in time one day!
Country's can pick which of the 24 hour time zones they wish to be in, irrespective of global position.

https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia ... -date-line
"International date line
international date line, imaginary line on the earth's surface, generally following the 180° meridian of longitude, where, by international agreement, travelers change dates. Traveling eastward across the line, one subtracts one calendar day; traveling westward, one adds a day. The date line is necessary to avoid a confusion that would otherwise result. For example, if an airplane were to travel westward with the sun, 24 hr would elapse as it circled the globe, but it would still be the same day for those in the airplane while it would be one day later for those on the ground below them. The same problem would arise if two travelers journeyed in opposite directions to a point on the opposite side of the earth, 180° of longitude distant. The eastward traveler would set his clock ahead 1 hr for each 15° of longitude (see standard time), so that his clock would gain a total of 12 hr; the westward traveler would set his clock back 1 hr for each 15°, resulting in a total loss of 12 hr. The two clocks would therefore differ by 24 hr, or one calendar day. The apparent paradox is resolved by requiring that the traveler crossing the date line change his date, thus bringing the travelers into agreement when they meet. The international date line does not follow the 180° meridian along its entire course but bends eastward around the eastern tip of Siberia, westward around the Aleutian Islands, and eastward again around various island groups in the South Pacific (mostly extremely around Kiribati) to avoid a date change within island nations and territories or between important trade partners"

https://www.worldslastchance.com/yahuwa ... ption.html

Yes - I wish all cyclists a Happy New Year, however it will not be better that '21. We're in The End Game, now...