♲ @jimchair@twitter.com: “New Year’s is a fake event, created in 1993 by the clock industry, aka Big Time, as a way of selling more sundials, watches and impossible-to-program bedside clock radios.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hide-the-countdown-clocks-lets-ring-in-the-new-year-early-and-go-to-bed-11546012964