Kiribati uses UTC+14 on Kiritimati, making it one of the first inhabited places to enter a new year.
Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is part of the island nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. Its civil time is Line Islands Time, which is UTC+14, the world's most advanced standard time zone. As a result, midnight arrives there before it reaches most other populated locations.
Kiribati moved the International Date Line eastward for its eastern islands in 1994, allowing the entire country to share the same calendar date. The phrase “first in the world” can be misleading because several locations share or approach the earliest time zone, and the exact first celebration depends on which inhabited locality is being compared.