Happy new year !

[UndeadxAssassin]

Happy New Year. Another year of my life goes flying by...yay.

Unless your birthday is Jan. 1st, I don't think another year has passed yet .

[Bartimaeus]

...We were in 2009. It just went into 2010. How is that not a year passing by?

[UndeadxAssassin]

It is. For some people. But I'm being technical and saying that 365 (or 366) days has not passed for you, yet . If so, I could say that every day is a new year >>. SEMANTICS!

[Kryptonyte]

Undead, your argument is crap. We have an official start/end of the year so we
actually can say a year has passed, hence the holidays name, New Year.

[Senethior459]

Undead was focusing on the "another year of my life" part. It could be interpreted that it's his birthday. Of course, it could also be true for any other day; I could say it today and have it be true. Another year of my life has gone by since January first last year.

[Kryptonyte]

Senethior, I get that.
In order to do that though, you'd be breaking the meaning of year
from the months of Jan-Dec to just the dates and/or just 365 days.
You just don't do that, why the hell would you?
After waiting through the year of '09, I can say another year has past in my life.
You wouldn't wake up every morning and say "It's been a year (365 days) since the last (insert date here)",
so it's a new year. That argument is complete shit and doesn't make sense.
The entire concept of the "New Year" is that we begin to re-count the days
of the year, meaning we DON'T use days from the last year to count. You
would have to be using dates from '09 to say that EVERY day is a New Year,
which effectively ruins the entire idea behind the New Year.

What I said put into simpler words...

Lol... The new year is because of the Calender Change

Besides if you wanted to argue that you could say it every day, you'd have
to remember that you'd be using the same days over and over again.

Such as Jan 2nd '09 to Jan 2nd '10 uses all the days between them to make a "year", 365 days.
Now if it's Jan 3rd '10 and you said it's been another year since the last Jan 3rd, you'd be using
Jan 4th-Jan 1st '09 and part of '10 for those arguments, you'd have to be re-using days, which
you can't do.

[UndeadxAssassin]

Oh look, I started a nice argument .

A year is defined as the passing of 365 or sometimes 366 days or of 12 calendar months. Although now those months are defined from Jan 1st to Dec 31, I was not aiming it at the holiday of "New Years" I was simply stating that the statement that Bart typed was technically incorrect being that if another year has passed on his life, that would be his birthday. If we go by your statement, Krypt:

Now if it's Jan 3rd '10 and you said it's been another year since the last Jan 3rd, you'd be using
Jan 4th-Jan 1st '09 and part of '10 for those arguments, you'd have to be re-using days, which
you can't do.

For the sake of argument, we'll use my birthday, since I don't know when Bart's is (and I'm too lazy to find out right now). My birthday falls on June 20th. Now, if what you're saying is true, if I define January 1st as the "New Year" I can't say that on my BIRTHDAY, another YEAR has passed because

you'd have to be re-using days, which
you can't do.

I'd be using the days June 21st to June 19th, which includes the dates January 1st and December 31st, so you're saying that my birthday isn't another year passing (Or vice versa, my birthday is a year, but January 1st is not).

As I've said, I was simply stating that Bart's statement was inaccurate because picking on Bart is fun (because he won't tell me his name!).

On a side note, American "New Years" is over so I'm gonna move this back to GC.