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:
“A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them, and seeing it bravely for the nothing it is. Beware of the man who says, “I am on the eve of a revelation.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)