How is the date of the New Year decided?

Answer 1

Completely abitrarily -- though by international agreement the entire world uses the same calendar now, putting the start of the new year on January 1.

What day we use to start and end a year makes no difference -- the earth continually orbits the sun, and a "year" just marks the amount of time it takes us to go around once. Since it's almost a circle (actually an ellipse), there is no start and no end, so we can pick whatever date we want.

The calendar we use now (with slight modifications) was originally from ancient Rome, put out during the time of Julius Ceasar. At that time, the start of the year was in March, at the beginning of spring time (which is why the names of the months September, October, November, and December -- based on the latin roots for 7, 8, 9, 10 -- no longer make any sense...they're now the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th months). When Pope Gregory reformed this calendar (to make up for it being off from a true year by nearly 1 day every century), he chose January 1 as the New Year. And so it is now.

It would probably make more astronomical sense to make Dec. 21st, the winter solstice, the beginning of the New Year (at least for the Northern hemisphere) -- but it's not gonna change now, too ingrained in the world.

Answer 2

It has been celebrated on January 1 for centuries, but back in the 1600's, the new year was considered to begin at the vernal equinox. This led to peculiar dating conventions, e.g. February 1, 1666/67, when January 1 had come but the equinox hadn't.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

When the clock announces 12 O'clock of December 31st!

Answer 5

Every first of each year; the moment 24 hours clocks you are in and it continues for the whole day. 31st is the eve.

Answer 6

When the present calendar runs out of days.

Answer 7

um well our calendar is based on the birth of jesus but it turns out jesus was actually born in year 4 or something. so the new year is when the earth completes another rotation around the sun (or it's jesus's supposed birthday).

Answer 8

One complete rotation of the earth and the sun

Answer 9

the date machine?

Answer 10

every 31