New Year's Eve
During London's New Year's Eve's celebrations the seconds to midnight are projected on to the tower. This requires accurate synchronisation with Big Ben's chimes. The format of the numbers has been changed throughout the years. From 2003-2008, the numbers ending in 0 lit up in grey and dots were added for every countdown, as well as a color that shows at the bottom of the building that changes every time it hits a number ending in 0 (This only happened for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007). In 2009 only, the numbers ending in 0 lit up in red and a spark surrounded the numbers. In 2010-2012 the numbers ending in 0 no longer lit up grey or red and the format of the numbers projected changed.
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Famous quotes containing the words year and/or eve:
“An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)