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:
“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)