Here are the very preliminary results of the analysis comparing US based RNGs (REGs) with European based RNGs around dec.31 23:00 UTC (midnight in Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland).

The bad news: The predicted difference in variance during the first minute after midnight (with 1 sec time resolution) couldn't be confirmed  (see graph below for the plot of cumulative chi2).

However: There appears to be a difference developing during the last 5 minutes of the European year due to first an increase in variance in he US-RNG's followed about 60 seconds later by an increase in variance in the Europeans. Furthermore there is a sudden drop in variance of the European RNG's in the second minute after midnight which is recovered in mins 3, 4 and 5. (see graph below which covers the 10 minutes around midnight)

When comparing the compound behaviour of European vs US (Eastern) RNG's at the eastern new year the global picture is similar to the one I have sent for the same comparsion at the European new year.

So this runs again against my hypothesis (i.e. there is no notable extra variance in the US - RNG's during the first minute of their new year). However during the 5 minutes preceding this moment the European RNG's are increasing strongly like the US RNG's were doing before europes new year. Then at midnight the cumulative chi-squares come together agian and stay close till minute +03:30 at which point the europeans take off again. I also looked at the correlation between the compound scores within each minute and found no systematic behaviour. Most correlations are negative and the over-all correlation (over 10 minutes) is -0.065 (p = 0.11 two-tailed).

Dick