Editing International Date Line (section)

===Facts dependent on the IDL===
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According to the clock, the first areas to experience a new day and a [[New Year]] are islands that use UTC+14:00. These include portions of the [[Republic of Kiribati]], including [[Millennium Island]] and [[Kiritimati]] in the [[Line Islands]]. The first major cities to experience a new day are [[Auckland]] and [[Wellington]], New Zealand ([[UTC+12:00]] or [[UTC+13:00]] during daylight saving [[Time in New Zealand|time]]).<ref name=timeNearIDL1>{{Cite web |title=Some Selected Times Around IDL  |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=3399,724,1890,1033,103,1440,3795,675,282,4019,468,277,22,4679,63,274&wch=2 |website=timeanddate.com |language=en }} Focused mostly on [[List of islands in the Pacific Ocean|Pacific islands]].</ref>

A 1994 realignment of the IDL made Caroline Island one of the first points of land on Earth to reach January 1, 2000, on the calendar (UTC+14:00). As a result, this [[atoll]] was renamed Millennium Island.<ref name="Millennium">{{cite web |work=Pacific Islands Report |title=Kiribati's Caroline Island renamed Millennium Island |date=September 2002 |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/1997/08/11/kiribatis-caroline-island-renamed-millennium-island |access-date=4 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822120549/http://www.pireport.org/articles/1997/08/11/kiribatis-caroline-island-renamed-millennium-island |archive-date=22 August 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Every day for 2 hours from 10:00 to 12:00 UTC there are 3 different days on earth.   Example: On Tuesday 10:33 UTC it is Monday 22:33 on [[Baker Island]] (US), 23:33 on [[Midway Atoll|Midway]] (US), [[Pago Pago, American Samoa|Pago Pago]] (American Samoa) and [[Alofi]] (Niue), Tuesday almost everywhere else on earth and Wednesday 00:33 in [[Kiritimati]] (Kiribati) in the Line Islands. Then 1 hour 11 minutes later at 11:44 UTC it is Monday 23:44 on Baker Island, Tuesday almost everywhere else on earth, Wednesday 01:44 in Kiritimati and 00:44 in [[Canton Island]] (Kiribati) in the [[Phoenix Islands]], [[Apia]] (Samoa), [[Atafu]] (Tokelau) and [[Nukuʻalofa]] (Tonga) (also in [[Auckland]] during summer when [[Time in New Zealand|NZDT]] is observed). [[Chatham Islands]] (NZ) are also nominally 2 days ahead of Baker Island for 45 minutes in the winter ([[Chatham Standard Time Zone|CHAST]]) and 1 hour 45 minutes in the summer (CHADT).{{r|timeNearIDL1}}

The areas that are the first to see the daylight of a new day vary by the season. Around the [[June solstice]], the first area would be any place within the [[Kamchatka Time|Kamchatka Time Zone]] (UTC+12:00) that is far enough north to experience [[midnight sun]] on the given date. At the [[equinox]]es, the first place to see daylight would be the uninhabited Millennium Island in Kiribati, which is the easternmost land located west of the IDL.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Near the [[December solstice]], the first places would be [[Research stations in Antarctica|Antarctic research stations]] using [[Time in New Zealand|New Zealand Time]] (UTC+13:00) during summer that experience midnight sun. These include [[Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]], [[McMurdo Station]], [[Scott Base]] and [[Zucchelli Station]].{{r|timeNearIDL1}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Time in Antarctica|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/antarctica|website=timeanddate.com}} Click through to the individual stations' pages. With respect to Scott Base, see [[Ross Dependency]].</ref>