I have no objection to people dividing a day into 24 hours, Ebbie. They could just as well divide a day into 18 hours if they decided to, and it would work okay too, but 24 is fine with me. Nor do I have objections to people using the Gregorian calendar.

But I think it would be nice if people were a lot more aware of the Solstices, the Equinoxes, and the great natural cycles of life, and if they instead celebrated the New Year on the basis of those cycles.

The conventional New Years' frenzy that exists in this society just leaves me cold. I can't relate to it. I think it's a tremedously silly occasion, as most people presently are practicing it. It used to be mainly just an excuse to get drunk, loud, maudlin, and disorderly...but the drunk driving laws are so severe now in North America that that has fallen off to a good extent.