> The main problem with seasonal rationales is that our planet has a southern hemisphere, whose seasons are all out of phase. It's kind of like that map of the world I saw once which was upside-down from how they're usually displayed, so that Australia was up at the top. It looks wrong, but it's no more wrong than what we usually see.

The date of the new year celebration is completely arbitrary, so there's no reason why it couldn't be celebrated in the fall (for example) in both hemispheres.

The tropics don't really have seasons to speak of, so they could keep January 1 or whatever date they want. That would be a nice geographical buffer between north and south.

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