Dear friends,  If you would like to toast for the new millennium (*)
every time the clock rolls over somewhere in the world, here's a list
of 36 opportunities over 25 hours.  The information is condensed from
the list in http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/  All times are in
UTC.

(*) After 36 beers, who cares? (-:

1999-12-31 UTC:

10:00 Kiribati/Christmas Islands
10:15 New Zealand/Chatham Island
11:00 Fiji Islands, Kiribati/Phoenix Islands, New Zealand, Tonga
12:00 Kiribati, Nauru
      Russian Fed: Anadyr, Kamchatka, Tuvalu
12:30 Australia: Norfolk Island
13:00 Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania
      Fed. states of Micronesia
      France: New Caledonia
      Solomon Islands,  Vanuatu
13:30 Australia: South
14:00 Australia: Queensland
      Papua New Guinea
      Russian Fed: Vladivostok
      U.S.A.: Mariana Islands
14:30 Australia: Northern Territory
15:00 Indonesia: Halmahera, Irian Jaya, Seram
      Japan
      North & South Korea
16:00 Australia: Western
      Brunei, China, East Timor
      Indonesia: Bali, Flores, Lombok, Sumbawa, West Timor
      Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
17:00 Australia: Christmas Island
      Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
      Indonesia: Java, Sumatera
      Russian Fed: Krasnoyarsk
17:30 Burma
18:00 Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka
      Russian Fed: Novosibirsk, Omsk
18:15 Nepal
18:30 India
19:00 France: Kerguelen
      Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
      Russian Fed: Chelyabinsk, Perm, Sverdlovsk, Ufa
19:30 Afghanistan
20:00 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mauritius, Oman, Reunion
      Russian Fed: Samara
      Seychelles, United Arab Emirates
20:30 Iran
21:00 Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq
      France: Mayotte
      Kenya, Kuwait, Madagaskar, Qatar
      Russian Fed: Kazan, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, St-Peterburg
      Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen
22:00 Belarus,
      Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Finland,
      Gaza Strip, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho
      Libya, Malawi, Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Romania,
      Russian Fed: Kaliningrad
      Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine,
      Zaire: Lubumbashi
      Zambia, Zimbabwe
23:00 Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Austria, Belgium, Benin,
      Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Central African Republic,
      Chad, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea
      France, Gabon, Germany, Holy See, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo
      Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta
      Monaco, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Slovakia
      Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Tunisia
      U.K.: Gibraltar, Yugoslavia, Zaire: Kinshasa

2000-01-01 UTC

00:00 Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Denmark: Faroer Islands, Gambia,
      Ghana, Guinea, Guinee-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Liberia, Mali,
      Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal,
      Sierra Leone, Spain: Canary Islands, Togo, U.K./England, Scotland,
      Western Sahara
01:00 Capo Verde, Portugal: Azores
02:00 Brazil: Brasilia, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo,
      Fernando de Noronha
03:00 Argentina, Chile, France: French Guiana, Paraguay, Suriname,
      U.K.: Falkland Islands, Uruguay
03:30 Canada: Newfoundland
04:00 Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil/Manaus,
      Canada: Nova Scotia
      Dominica, Dominican Republic, France: Guadeloupe,Martinique
      Grenada, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis
      Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
      The Netherlands: Aruba, Netherlands Antilles
      Trinidad and Tobago
      U.K.: Anguilla, Montserrat, Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Virgin
      Islands
      Venezuela
05:00 Bahamas
      Brazil: Rio Branco
      Canada: Ontario, Quebec
      Chile: Easter Island
      Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Peru
      U.K.: Grand Cayman
      U.S.A.: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
      Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
      North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
      Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia,  Indiana
06:00 Belize
      Canada: Nunavut Territory, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
      Costa Rica, Ecuador: Galapagos, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
      Mexico: Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Leon, Merida,
      Mexico City, Monterrey, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz
      Nicaragua
      U.S.A.: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
      Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota,
      Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin
07:00 Canada: klavik, Alberta, Northwest Territories
      Mexico: Chihuahua, Mazatlan
      U.S.A.: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Texas
      (El Paso), Utah, Wyoming
08:00 Canada: Brit. Columbia, Yukon
      Mexico: Mexicali, Tijuana
      U.K.: Pitcairn
      U.S.A.: California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington
09:00 U.S.A.: Alaska
10:00 Cook Islands
      France: French Polynesia-Tahiti
      U.S.A.: Alaska (Aleutian Islands), Hawaii
11:00 Samoa

Happy millennium!

Hans van Oost, Netherlands (celebrating at UTC minus 1)

 [ That reminds me of the trivia question, "Which of the 50 American
 [ states is farthest east?"  Answer: Alaska !  Synchronize your clock
 [ at  http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/year2000a.html   -- Robbie