UTC+14:00

UTC Time Zone Infobox

 
All time zones defined by difference with UTC
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:00 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
:30 09 04 03 03 04 05 06 08 09 10 11
:45 05 12
  UTC+14:00 ~ 150 degrees W – all year
 Areas in a darker shade use daylight saving time. The base color shows the standard time.
Meridians
Central 150 degrees W
Other
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UTC+14:00 is an identifier for a +14 hour time offset from UTC. This is the highest time zone, meaning that areas in this zone are the first to see a new day, and therefore the first to celebrate a New Year.

UTC+14 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line.

As standard time (all year round)

UTC+14: Blue (December), Orange (June), Yellow (all year round), Light Blue - Sea areas

Oceania

As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)

Oceania

History

The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced a change of date for its eastern half on 1 January 1995, from time zones −11 and −10 to +13 and +14. Before this, the time zone UTC+14 did not exist. As a British colony, Kiribati was centered in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old date line. The distant Phoenix and Line Islands were on the other side of the date line. Government offices on opposite sides of the line could only communicate by radio or telephone on the four days of the week when both sides experienced weekdays simultaneously.

The revision of Kiribati's time zone meant that the date line in effect moved eastwards to go around this country, so that the Line Islands, including the inhabited Kiritimati island, started the year 2000 on its territory before any other country on earth, a feature which the Kiribati government capitalized upon as a potential tourist draw.[1]

Tonga – IANA time zone database zone name Pacific/Tongatapu – used UTC+14 for daylight saving time from 1999 to 2002,[2] and therefore celebrated new year 2000 at the same time as the Line Islands in Kiribati.

At the end of 29 December 2011 (UTC−10), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11 to UTC+13 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10 to UTC+14), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country.[3][4] Following Samoa’s decision, Tokelau also advanced its standard time (used without daylight saving time), from UTC−11 to UTC+13.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ariel, Avraham; Berger, Nora Ariel (2005). Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line. Greenwood Press. p. 149. ISBN 0-275-98895-3.
  2. ↑ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=277&year=1999
  3. ↑ "Samoa to change time zones and move forward by a day". Metro.
  4. ↑ "Samoa to move the International Dateline". Herald Sun.
  5. ↑ "Tokelau: Wrong local time for over 100 years". 7 August 2012.

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