That's makes great sense. The time difference to your neck of the woods so bends my mind when I'm communicating with my Aussie friends Marcia, Kim, and Kylie, or submitting to you and wondering when you'll see it and publish (thanks for the super fast publish by the way).
In 90 minutes here it will be 8am on the 30th and the ball will already have dropped on the New Year in Melbourne. Oh, and your half hour time zones, really, come on!