It will be 2023 in Kiribati before it will be 2023 wherever you may find yourself.

[Farrah Nuff]

But as of this posting, it’s still 2022 there for about one more hour.
Time zones are interesting but they run vertically. The horizontal
direction doesn’t change what time it is in that north-south area.

WELCOME TO GMT+14: THE EARLIEST PLACE ON EARTH

 

[jujube]

Very interesting.

Then you get New Delhi time, which is GMT +5 1/2. Why the 1/2?

Well, New Delhi is in the middle of meridians and the guv'mint didn't want to show favor to either side, so they split it.

China, on the other hand, only has one time zone even though it's 5000 miles wide.

 

[Gardenlover]

I remember watching the world go through the time zones during 2000, waiting to see if computers would crash.