bushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 12 hours agoNew Years Evesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1630arrow-down147
arrow-up1583arrow-down1imageNew Years Evesh.itjust.worksbushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 12 hours agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down4·11 hours agoIt’s distorted by a fuckton of history and stuff, including the invention of yearly calendars and manipulating them over millenia, plus whatever christianity added to the mix, but it’s not arbitrary.
minus-squareilli@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·8 hours agoIt is now. I can imagine it started the way so that January 1st falls on solstice. But it doesn’t so the date we set as New Year is pretty arbitrary.
It’s distorted by a fuckton of history and stuff, including the invention of yearly calendars and manipulating them over millenia, plus whatever christianity added to the mix, but it’s not arbitrary.
It is now.
I can imagine it started the way so that January 1st falls on solstice. But it doesn’t so the date we set as New Year is pretty arbitrary.