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Midnight Wave: New Year Crossing Timezones — Flat Map

A flat-map + linear-timeline view of the real 26-hour New Year's midnight wave: 34 real named regions sweep from waiting to celebrating in true UTC-offset order, from Kiribati (UTC+14) to Baker Island (UTC-12) — drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a region on the map or the timeline.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

The same real 26-hour New Year's wave that sweeps a 3D globe elsewhere on this site is modelled here two ways at once: a pannable, zoomable flat map with a moving midnight meridian, and a linear timeline plotting all 34 real named regions by the exact UTC hour their true offset reaches local midnight — a genuinely independent 1-D model of the identical civil-offset arithmetic, not a flattened reprojection of the sphere.

⚙ Under the hood

A pannable flat map plus an independent linear timeline plot the same real 26-hour New Year's midnight wave across 34 real named regions in true UTC-offset order.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install