Tonight I started to wonder who gets to see the 2010 fireworks first?  Turns out, when it’s ___ am/pm 12/31/09 in Los Angeles, it’s 2010 in ____.

4am Petropavlosk, New Zealand, Fiji, Guam

5am New Caledonia, Guadalcanal

6am Vladiovstak, Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania

7am Tokyo, Asaka, Seoul

8am Canton, Peking, Hong Kong, Philippines, Perth

9am Jakarta, Java, Bangkok, Rangoon

10am Calcutta, Sri Lanka, New Delhi

11am Pakistan, Afghanistan

12pm Gorki, Rostov, Iran

1pm Moscow, Iraq, Kenya, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia

2pm Helsinki, Romania, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, Greece, Turkey

3pm France, Holland, Denmark, Libya, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Italy

4pm England, Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, Ghana, Iceland, Greenwich*

5pm Cape Verda, Azores

6pm Cape Disappointment, Falkland Islands

7pm Greenland, Rio de Janiero, Guyana

7:30pm Newfoundland

8pm Chile, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

9pm New York, Miami, Columbia, Peru, Montreal, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica

10pm Mexico City, Chicago, Winnipeg, Costa Rica, Galapagos Islands

11pm Boise, Mazatlan, Calgary

12am Mountain View, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Guadalupe

1am Marquesas Islands, Alaska

2am Hawaii, Aleutian Islands

3am Midway Island, Roosevelt Island, Western Samoa

*Again, times are what time it is in California (PST) when it’s New Years somewhere else. Fascinatin’!