Merry Christmas to you all.

remember arthur mann said:
Happy New Year, Sun began it's climb yesterday.
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Not quite New Year yet.

The earliest evening/afternoon sunsets of the year (15:49) last for around 10 days and start on 9th December, the shortest day of the year (7hrs 28:27secs...08:23-15:51)/the Solstice is on 21st, the Sun noticeably rises (by 1° on the horizon) in the sky for the first time after the Solstice on 25th, and the latest morning sunrises (08:25) last around 10 days and the final one of the year at that time is on 31st.

1st January is the day the morning sunrise starts to get earlier (08:24).

[all these times are Manchester times, they vary according to latitude]

The whole season is related to the Sun and the final observed part of that is 1st January.


Merry Christmas to all of you! Have a great time, even if you’re on your own. I’ve isolated (work’s idea!) for two weeks ahead of tomorrow so that I can spend time with my family. I know others who live alone won’t have been able to do that, but still enjoy the day!
 
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Merry Christmas to all on Bluemoon.
We've been lucky down under, life is normal except no foreign travel.
I hope the situation in the UK improves very soon.
I don't live there but I still love it.
 
urban genie said:
Why?

Atheist celebrate christmas.
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Indeed. This time of year has been celebrated since at least the Neolithic! It has little to do with Christianity. The dates that are observed and the iconography of Christmas have been observed since well before Christianity existed, and Christianity actually engulfed these dates into their calendar, and made up stories and Saints and Saints’-holidays on already long-existing Pagan holidays and even Pagan gods/goddesses (Brigit celebrated on Imbolc and St Bridgid on 1st February, for example), to make conversion to Christianity more palatable.

This time of year is also celebrated across the Northern Hemisphere with holidays like Dongzhi in the Far East, Yalda in Iran, and many of the historical Sun gods from many ancient religions who were honoured at this time of year (many of which had a birth date around the Solstice), which have nothing to do with Christianity. Therefore, you don’t have to be a Christian or even religious to celebrate Christmas as it’s just long standing traditions of the Northern Hemisphere’s new year or rebirth of the Sun being celebrated.
 
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