New Year also begins with universal darkness –New Year Fact!
January 1, 2012
Happy New Year! This is the most common message people will be sending and receiving since a couple of days. The message certainly is a good wish and has turned out to be a universal tradition and greeting on the last eve of every year. Many parts of the world including United States and United Kingdom celebrate it as part of their holidays that begin with Christmas and despite all the lights and fireworks to welcome the new year at 12:00 am it remains an unprecedented fact that each new year begins with darkness.
Yes, it is night hour when each day turns into another day. So is it a message? According to one school of thought universe has its own signs to make people understand nature which is later proved and accepted by scientific evidence. Using this school of thought one may think reasons for why each day is a new day at dark hour of the night?
Here are some interesting and controversial answers to this question. Why does the day change at 12:00 AM? The answer to this question takes us back to the invention of time and clock and you can easily find it on Wikipedia so I am not going to discuss that here but rather some other reasons will be stated by me here.
One reason that date changes at 12:00 is that it is the time when sun and moon are at the most opposite extremes of their reality and positions, which means that you may not see sun or moon at this time for most part of the year because sun is at its extreme at some part of the world ringing 12 pm on clocks while the lunar cycle because of its different stages may not be visible for most part of the year. So what it has to do with changing the date? Well, the source I used to get this info had this only there and I too was a bit puzzled and confused finding this as an incomplete or illogical answer to the initial question.
The second reason is rather a theory and not a fact. It says that it is a sign from God (creator) that all things begin with darkness and as the world itself was dark and was created by it, each date changes with the darkest part of the night.
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