Don’t feel like waiting a few more hours for midnight and the New Year?

Check out one of the New Year’s Countdown clocks here.

Residents in Kathmandu will ring in the year within the next few hours. Denizens of Bombay will do the same shortly afterwards.

Do you know a member of the Forces serving in Kabul or Bagdad? See when they will see the New Year arrive.

People in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Paris will watch the fireworks ending 2008 at these times.

Lucky holidaymakers on the Portuguese island of the Azores will celebrate 2009 roughly the time the sun sets in Oregon.

Sticklers for accuracy will, of course, feel the need to factor in that all-important extra leap year second.

UPDATE: If TheEye had a physical presence then it would have a bad head this morning.