Humbly report, Jeff, I humbly believe I may indeed be the winner!
In my first post regarding this contest:
Message 3002883
I said: "I believe the answer to your trivia question can be found, among many other places, here:
sprocket.com
(Hint: search it for the keywords "first time zone".)"
Had one done so, one would have found the following immediately underneath:
Time Zone UTC Offset New Years' at South Pole Local Time
--------- ---------- -----------------------------------
Auckland, NZ -12 11 PM Dec 31 1991
South Pole +12 Midnight Jan 1 1992
Noumea, New Caledonia +11 1 AM
Sydney, Australia +10 2 AM
Tokyo, Japan +9 3 AM
Peking, China +8 4 AM
Singapore +7 5 AM
Rangoon, Burma +6 6 AM
Bombay, India +5 7 AM
Abu Dhabai, Oman +4 8 AM
Kuwait City, Kuwait +3 9 AM
Moscow, Russia +2 10 AM
Rome, Italy +1 11 AM
London, England +0 Noon
Reykjavik, Iceland -1 1 PM
Recife, Brazil -2 2 PM
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil -3 3 PM
Halifax, Nova Scotia -4 4 PM
New York, USA -5 5 PM
Chicago, USA -6 6 PM
Denver, USA -7 7 PM
Los Angeles, USA -8 8 PM
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada -9 9 PM
Anchorage, USA -10 10 PM
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA -11 11 PM
Therefore, not to beat around the bush, my guess is: Noumea, New Caledonia
Svejk
(GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ) |
