Midnight passed on the east coast. New year! It's nearly 2:00 there now.

Although most of the Aleutian Islands are not populated, there are 95 people living on Atka Island: 52°08′17″N 174°26′43″W. Being the westernmost population in the US (UTC-10), they're still five hours from 2024: http://new.earthtools.org/timezone/52.138056/-174.445278 . The population of the village of Atka is 53 as of the 2020 census: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atka,_Alaska .

The 47,329 citizens the Northern Mariana Islands and the 168,801 citizens of Guam are US citizens, though. They're all UTC+10, which is, per the Census department's ZCTA data, the easternmost US timezone. The absolute easternmost zip code is in Tinian (96952, at 15°0′0″N, 145°38′0″E), which also has the distinction of being the place where Little Boy was loaded into the Enola Gay. Apparently, various companies keep trying to build hotels and casinos but it falls through every time, due to financial troubles, allegations of money laundering, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinian (photos are from there). The air and naval bases remain.

At any rate, it's now late afternoon there: 16:41.
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