Auckland [New Zealand], December 31 The world has started celebrating the arrival of New Year 2024 and some major countries have welcomed the occasion with fireworks and happiness.

Australia and New Zealand were the first major countries to welcome the new year 2024 with joy.

More than a million people celebrated the New Year on Sunday night amid spectacular fireworks that lit up Australia’s Sydney Harbor city and New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tea. Tower in Auckland

Light rain continued throughout the day in Auckland and the weather cleared in the city by midnight.

The small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati rang in the New Year an hour earlier. Notably, Kiribati, an island nation with 33 atolls, was the first place to bid farewell to its name.Welcome 2023 and the New Year 2024 as the International Date Line moves around the easternmost islands of Kiribati

An important contribution to this temporal difference is the International Date Line (IDL), which serves as the major time point for the official beginning and end of each day throughout the world. While an imaginary line, IDL tells us the difference between night and day in different countries. Established in 1884, the IDL is located at 180 degrees east (or west) and exactly halfway across the prime meridian (Greenwich).Which simply defines the time zone.