Probably Russia is the only country celebrating an odd holiday named Old New Year. Does it makes sense to you? =)
It is celebrated in the night between 13th and 14th January -- that's today! Gives us Russians another reason to get drunk. The holiday has its roots in the dates shift occured somewhere in the beginning of 20th century to catch up with the missing 2 weeks that were made during 1900 years. Or something like that.
Anyway, 13th Jan is the same as Dec 31st in the "old" dates (without the day shift) - so this is why this is called Old New Year. (That's the same reason as why we celebrate Xmas on Jan 7th and not Dec 25th. Odd).
Happy Old New Year 2003!
Posted by slava at 05:25 PM
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Hey Slava,
Since I've seen several calendar related posts on this site, I thought I would mention that for fun I wrote a little Cocoa app that can calculate the date of "old calendar" Easter for almost any year. Not hugely useful, but it is kind of interesting to see what date Orthodox Easter will fall on in the year 3999 :-)!
God Slava, the more I learn about you, the more I like you! Freak...
;-)
Posted by: Dan on January 14, 2003 11:50 PMHappy Old New Year! 8-)
Wish you all the best, guys!
interesting!... thanks to google.. :)
poka
Posted by: Dinara ...ova on January 13, 2004 6:54 AMFor those who are further interested in more details - the "Old New Year" is celebrated (in addition to Russia and other ex-USSR countries) in Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia (it is called "Serbian New Year" there), and in Romania. Essentially, this is a holiday of the Orthodox Christians, which have not switched to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian calendar.
Actually, the Orthodox Christians are not the first who started the celebration of the "Old New Year". People in Switzerland celebrate this holiday for more than 400 years. It is called the "Alter Silvester" (the "Old Silvester"). The origin is the same - during the Reformation the transition from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar occured, but people were conservative enough to keep celebrating the Silvester day (December 31) under both calendars.
And I do not think that the Swiss would do this for 400+ years if the only reason was to have "another reason to get drunk."
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