Another orbit around the sun

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You're thinking of the Winter Solstice, which was on Dec. 21!

Daemon Silverstein

Also, they're thinking of the northern hemisphere only. The world has another hemisphere, the southern hemisphere, where it's now summer.

palordrolap

From the Sun's perspective, perihelion or aphelion would make more sense, I guess.

By sheer coincidence, perihelion is a few days away at the time of writing, so we could lie to the Sun that this is an early celebration of that.

Of course, this comes with two problems: 1) The common era new year is actually a belated marking of the solstice (much like Christmas a week before). Perihelion will be later and later on average with respect to it due to the procession of the poles, so the lie is going to become more and more apparent over the coming centuries. 2) The Sun might think we're celebrating being far away because we hate it.

Dr. Bob

How can a flat planet have people living on the bottom. Stop promoting such nonsense.

Daemon Silverstein

And due to things such as orbital drifting, the spot where Earth is supposed to be on December 31st 2024 23:59:59.999 GMT isn't the same spot where Earth was exactly 365.256363004 days earlier. Sun's also moving, orbiting around the center of the Milky Way, which is also moving, oversimplifiedly, towards the Laniakea supercluster. Every spot Earth lies on every December 31st is definitely an entire uncharted spot.

Daemon Silverstein

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I think Brazil and Australia would like a word.

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I think Brazil and Australia would like a word.

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Aaand... they're gone forever

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New year, new territory. I like it.

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You mean the Portuguese and the English, who brought their traditions with them

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In theory, couldn't we use the exact point the Earth is precisely between the sun and galactic center?

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Hey, gotta start somewhere.

DefederateLemmyMl

It is aligned for the southern hemisphere as well, just with winter and summer reversed.

Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

The Sun might think we’re celebrating being far away because we hate it.

Much like the celebration of the winter solstice is being happy the days are getting longer, maybe the Sun would think we're happy we're getting closer again.

Sol Invictus!

Zagorath

I can't speak for Brazil, but here in Australia we're too sleepy to care right now. Happy New Year.

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They took over the celebrations during colonization. Do the natives even celebrate New Year?

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Which was before today or not?

Captain Howdy

Aren't all forms of measurement (in this case it's a measurement of time) completely arbitrary?

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Does January 1st coincide with the ending of winter anywhere?