Happy New Year from Aussieland...

[GlennSprigg]

It's now 10:45pm Tues 31st Dec. 2019 here in Western Australia.
Half the World is behind us technically by a day!!   

What is always funny here in AussieLand is that Dec/Jan is HOT!!
Yet we still have depictions of Sleighs in Snow for Christmas etc etc...
Father Christmas should be in shorts, with a hat with lots of bobbing corks dangling
off of it to keep away the flies, drive an old FJ Ute, and an Esky of beer by his side!! 

Santa Claus derives from St Nicholas or Sinterklaas as he is known in Holland.

While Santa lives in the North Pole with his reindeer and busy elves, Sinterklaas spends most of his time in Spain. 

[Black Phoenix]

Happy new year from Hong Kong!

My birth country is still 8 hours behind (GMT).

[AlfBaz]

2:25 am into the new year here on the east coast

[StillTrying]

"My birth country is still 8 hours behind (GMT)."

It's 8 and a 1/2 hours behind now, time must be going backwards, - at last.

[Black Phoenix]

"My birth country is still 8 hours behind (GMT)."

It's 8 and a 1/2 hours behind now, time must be going backwards, - at last.

Sorry but I don't understand your comment. If I'm not mistaken, I'm 8 hours above GMT, who makes Hong Kong GMT +8

[Zero999]

It's now 10:45pm Tues 31st Dec. 2019 here in Western Australia.
Half the World is behind us technically by a day!!   

What is always funny here in AussieLand is that Dec/Jan is HOT!!
Yet we still have depictions of Sleighs in Snow for Christmas etc etc...
Father Christmas should be in shorts, with a hat with lots of bobbing corks dangling
off of it to keep away the flies, drive an old FJ Ute, and an Esky of beer by his side!! 

Santa Claus derives from St Nicholas or Sinterklaas as he is known in Holland.

While Santa lives in the North Pole with his reindeer and busy elves, Sinterklaas spends most of his time in Spain. 

Yes, it's odd. It seldom snows in Holland, at Christmas time. There's more snow in Spain, at this time of year. Holland is flat and near and on the west coat of Europe so gets sea breezes and Spain has mountains with lots of snow.

[StillTrying]

If I'm not mistaken, I'm 8 hours above GMT, who makes Hong Kong GMT +8

I can't work it out

It's 17:30 GMT here now, so 6 + 1/2 hours before 2020, if you're 8 hours ahead you should now be 1 + 1/2 hours into 2020, I think.

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

Happy New Year from the jungle!

[andy3055]

Happy New Year to all from good ole' USA! 12:10 PM here in Sunny California. Another 11 hours, 50 minutes to mid night when we have some coffee and watch the fireworks in the TV.

Hope you guys down under are keeping safe from bad air and the fires.

[RoGeorge]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!   

[nctnico]

Happy new year to y'all!

[rsjsouza]

Happy new year to everyone. Still 5-1/2 hours to go here in central USofA.

For the ones already over the edge, you are a decade ahead of us!

(Yeah, yeah, a new decade starts on year "one", but a round number sounds better.)

[StillTrying]

It's arrived , but it's just the same as the old one.

[nctnico]

360 days until Christmas 

[Black Phoenix]

If I'm not mistaken, I'm 8 hours above GMT, who makes Hong Kong GMT +8

I can't work it out

It's 17:30 GMT here now, so 6 + 1/2 hours before 2020, if you're 8 hours ahead you should now be 1 + 1/2 hours into 2020, I think.

Ahh ok, understood, Denmark is GMT +1 not GMT.

GMT indicates that the time is exactly the same as the Greenwich Mean Time. Then in your case since Denmark is GMT +1 in the Winter, GMT +2 in the Summer.

https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/denmark/

So yes in your case I will be 7 hours ahead of you (GMT+8 minus 1 from your GMT +1).

[james_s]

I'm still not used to it being 2019 yet and now it's 2020 already. Just the other day I caught myself dating something -18.

[Ed.Kloonk]

A couple of weeks ago I put 09 on something. 

[rsjsouza]

What is always funny here in AussieLand is that Dec/Jan is HOT!!

Funny? To me that uses to be the norm...
The whole thing about Santa Claus descending on a chimney from 24~25 was always weak for us kids. Most houses in Brasil have no chimney, and we usually celebrate the eve with a big dinner + gift unwrapping and the lunch at 25th was with the leftovers.

Don't worry. In Shenzhen it is still hot. It's constantly above 20 degrees, CELCIUS, max, in the north hemisphere, in January .

Ah, so it is similar to East Texas then!