Old New Year

[Opportunity]

Do you celebrate a holiday like Old New Year? )))
 If anyone doesn’t know, here’s more details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_New_Year

Of course, now it’s more like a joke or a tribute to tradition, but I personally will definitely celebrate this Old New Year today. I still have a Christmas tree in the hall, I’ll drink vodka, light fireworks in the yard ))

[charby]

I've heard of Orthodox New Year, never celebrated it.

[K Frame]

Several friends of mine (and Castle Key's, as well) are Greek/Russian Orthodox and celebrate the Julian calendar festival days as well as the Gregorian calendar.

[Opportunity]

Several friends of mine (and Castle Key's, as well) are Greek/Russian Orthodox and celebrate the Julian calendar festival days as well as the Gregorian calendar.

It is very convenient, considering that some of my European partners begin to celebrate Catholic Christmas on December 25 - and we are always ready to support them in this. Then - New Year, then - Orthodox Christmas (January 7), then - Old New Year.
Almost a month of continuous holidays))

[lee n. field]

Do you celebrate a holiday like Old New Year? )))
 If anyone doesn’t know, here’s more details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_New_Year

Of course, now it’s more like a joke or a tribute to tradition, but I personally will definitely celebrate this Old New Year today. I still have a Christmas tree in the hall, I’ll drink vodka, light fireworks in the yard ))

before I look, I'll guess -- Julian calendar vs. Gregorian?

[K Frame]

before I look, I'll guess -- Julian calendar vs. Gregorian?

Do you celebrate a holiday like Old New Year? )))
 If anyone doesn’t know, here’s more details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_New_Year

Of course, now it’s more like a joke or a tribute to tradition, but I personally will definitely celebrate this Old New Year today. I still have a Christmas tree in the hall, I’ll drink vodka, light fireworks in the yard ))

before I look, I'll guess -- Julian calendar vs. Gregorian?

Yes, as I noted in my post. Julian vs Gregorian calendar.

[230RN]

As far as I'm concerned, the new year starts at an arbitrarily-chosen moment when the calendar reckoning changes from this year to this year plus one.  I never got excited about New Years Eve after I realized as a youngster that astronomically, the "New" year only begins at midnight 31`Dec-01 Jan in one out of four years.  Otherwise, it's 6AM 01 Jan, Noon 01 Jan, 6PM 01 Jan and midnite 01 Jan-02 Jan in your particular time zone.  All approximately anyway.*

Nevertheless, I still partied down with everybody else when the clock indicated midnight 31 Dec-01 Jan here in the US in my time zone on what happens to be my birthday. Other places have other arbitrary choices as to "when."

Terry, 230RN

* There are three kinds of years, but for general 91-octane purposes, you can figure it's 365.2425 days.  Your hourage may vary.

[fifth_column]

It's always seemed to me the year starts on the solstice when the days start getting longer.

[230RN]

It's always seemed to me the year starts on the solstice when the days start getting longer.

Heh.  How very pagan of yule. 

[Hawkmoon]

It's always seemed to me the year starts on the solstice when the days start getting longer.

So you'd be a Druid or a Wiccan, then? 

[fifth_column]

So you'd be a Druid or a Wiccan, then? 

Nah, I'm not really anything. It just seems to make sense that the year "starts over" at that point. I celebrate on 12/31 like most others. Anymore I "celebrate" that I was able to stay awake until midnight. 

It's amazing to me that ancient people noticed these things. If we were to take a typical US citizen and remove clocks, calendars, etc. for a year or more, I don't think they'd be able to tell when the solstices occur, let alone the equinoxes.

[230RN]

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[230RN]

The equinoxes would be obvious any time you're driving on an east-west road at sunrise or sunset.

         

Turn on your headlights with the sun behind you.

T   y, 230RN