eli5. New Year and Earth revolution

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Earth celebrates several new years— according to the communities and cultures. Chinese have their own new year, westerns have their own, and so have the south asian like Nepal. I’m from Nepal, and there January 1 is not the equivalent date when we celebrate our New Year. And, that might be the case for other places too(Not sure about that tho).

So, which new year is the exact day when the Earth completed one revolution around the Sun?

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There’s no fixed starting point for an orbit. Each of those new years celebrates 1 revolution since the last one of that type of new years. There’s 1 revolution between Chinese new years, 1 revolution between Nepalese new years, 1 revolution between Western new years, and so on.

To put this in more concrete terms: from March 1 to March 1 is one year, from April 19 to April 19 is 1 year, from December 12 to December 12 is one year, and so on.

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