UTC + 14

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Zone meridian 150 ° W

NATO DTG M †

Coordinates: 0 °  N , 150 °  W

USNO notation

UTC + 14 is a zone time which, like UTC − 10, has the semicircle 150 ° West = 210 ° East as the reference meridian. Both zone times are one and the same time. The difference lies in the calendar date . UTC + 14 also indicates that in the area of ​​its application (only in the eastern part of the island state of Kiribati ; as of December 2017) one calendar day is ahead of areas with UTC − 10. In this exceptional case, the date line is located east of the (real) time zone corresponding to UTC + 14.

Clocks with UTC + 14 show fourteen hours later than those with Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ± 0 ), and thirteen hours later than Central European Time .

UTC + 14
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    scope

    All year round

    Summertime (Southern Hemisphere)

    Local time in eastern Kiribati

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    Applies all year round
    Applies since January 1, 1995

    UTC − 10 through December 30, 1994

    The Republic of Kiribati decided in 1994 to introduce the date on its easternmost islands, Teraina , Tabuaeran, and Kiritimati ( Line Islands County ). Until then, the date line had run through the middle of the state, which was about 5000 km in east-west direction. On the neighboring islands of similar geographical length , in particular Hawaii (USA) in the north and Tahiti (French Polynesia) in the south, the zone time UTC − 10 is used to this day (status: December 2017), but has been used on the Line Islands since then January 1st, 1995 UTC + 14, so that the same time now exists there, but a date one day later than that of the northern and southern neighbors. With the capital South Tarawa on the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati furthest west, you now have the same date and, as before, a time two hours later than this (Gilbert Islands: UTC + 12 ). With this change, the date line in the area of ​​the equator was shifted more than 1000 kilometers eastwards.

    Course of the date line in the southern western Pacific, Caroline (Millennium) marked in red (center right)

    The new regulation was initiated by the then Beretitenti (President) Teburoro Tito , whereby in addition to the declared intention to have a uniform date throughout the national territory, the effect also occurred that the earliest date change occurred on the Line Islands. In view of the approaching turn of the year 1999/2000 ( Millennium ) and the resulting enormous attention that the beginning of the worldwide celebrations would attract, Tonga and New Zealand , their cities Niuafoʻou ( Niua Islands , time difference UTC + 13 ) and Waitangi ( Chatham , used today UTC + 12: 45 / UTC + 13: 45 ) until then were the date line nearest island cities. The UN refused any authority (time setting is a national responsibility), and the Royal Greenwich Observatory registered the new course of the date line.

    Since then, the earliest date change according to solar time has taken place on the uninhabited Caroline Atoll of the Line Islands . There the worldwide Millennium Celebrations began with a ceremony on December 31, 1999, 15:43 UTC ± 0 (January 1, 2000, 5:43 a.m. UTC + 14), and it has been officially called Millennium Island since then .

    The Line Islands belonging to the United States Minor Outlying Islands are uninhabited and do not claim their own time.

    literature

    • Aimee Harris: Date Line Politics. How did the Republic of Kiribati become the first country to enter the new millenium? In: Honolulu Magazine . August 1999, p. 20 (English, trussel.com [accessed on May 14, 2018]).

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ World Map of Time Zones - Standard Time Zones - world time zone map , US Naval Observatory (zones are noted there with the opposite sign: UTC = ZT + offset)
    2. ↑ The forward calculation by 14 hours takes place without restriction: no resetting of the date by one day, since the date line is not exceeded. This is especially true when calculating at certain hours of the day from which one finds the next calendar day. This has actually already started in areas with UTC + 14. Kiribati emphasizes this in its tourism advertising, especially at the turn of the millennium : The new millennium began there first.
    3. ↑ a b Quentin Letts: Pacific braces for millennium storm over matter of degrees. In: The Times. January 25, 1996, accessed October 1, 2009 .
    4. ^ A b Nicholas D. Kristof : Tiny Island's Date-Line Jog in Race for Millennium. In: New York Times. March 23, 1997, accessed October 1, 2009 .
    5. ^ " I was thinking of unifying the country, and three years ago I wasn't thinking of the millennium. Later I realized I had accidentally made a good decision. ”( Teburoro Tito ) Quoted from Kristof / New York Times 1997