Announcement: I plan to start a thread at 5:55 AM Pacific time Saturday morning...

[Ken Burch]

...which will be five minutes to midnight, Guam time...the first place in this country where 2017 will strike.

When the New Year arrives in your time zone wherever you are in the world, please check in on that thread...that way, we'll all be able to let each other know the moment each of us HAS SURVIVED 2016.

This is intended to boost collective morale and remind each of us that we are not alone in the years of resistance to come.

[Hoyt]

1. Should be interesting. I don't have a good perspective on how time varies around the world.

[pangaia]

3. Here ya go.

There is a nice interactive map to the right. Just click on it.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/current-number-time-zones.html

[Hoyt]

5. That's pretty good. Thanks.

[True Dough]

2. What makes you think

we're going to be sitting in front of our computers when midnight strikes to usher in 2017?




Of course some of us may be:

[Ken Burch]

4. Ok...if you didn't get invited anywhere, then.

And even AT parties, a lot of folks spend half the time on their freaking iDrones or whatever they call those newfangled things.

[left-of-center2012]

6. I'm more worried about surviving 2017 n/t

[Takket]

8. the first 19 days should be pretty good........

[KamaAina]

7. Guam: Where America's Day Begins

or in this case, its year.

[notdarkyet]

9. Remember

When I lived in Guam when my dad was stationed there. Fond memories for me. I was 4-6 yrs.

[hlthe2b]

10. Hello in Guam...

I do my annual New Year's Midnight "hike" with a few friends & dogs (and a small flask or two of wine) on local bike trails. It lets me "walk off the accumulated stress", while starting the new year off right. Should be Colorado cold, but clear.

I was in Guam several years ago. Beware the brown tree snakes...

[Ken Burch]

11. Started the "2016 Survival Thread" over here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028417714