<P> During the first hour (UTC 10: 00--10: 59), all three calendar dates include inhabited places . During the second hour (UTC 11: 00--11: 59) one of the calendar dates is limited to an uninhabited maritime time zone twelve hours behind UTC (UTC − 12). </P> <P> According to the clock, the first areas to experience a new day and a New Year are islands that use UTC + 14 . These include portions of the Republic of Kiribati, including Millennium Island in the Line Islands, as well as Samoa during the southern summer . The first major cities to experience a new day are Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand (UTC + 12; UTC + 13 with daylight saving time). </P> <P> A 1995 realignment of the IDL made Caroline Island one of the first points of land on Earth to reach January 1, 2000 on the calendar (UTC + 14). As a result, this atoll was renamed Millennium Island . </P> <P> The areas that are the first to see the daylight of a new day vary by the season . Around the June solstice, the first area would be anyplace within the Kamchatka Time Zone (UTC + 12) that is far enough north to experience midnight sun on the given date . At the equinoxes, the first place to see daylight would be the uninhabited Millennium Island in Kiribati, which is the easternmost land located west of the IDL . </P>

Why does the international date line only touch north pole and south pole