January 1 feels settled now. It sits quietly at the start of the calendar, accepted rather than questioned. Shops close early, clocks reset, and resolutions appear and fade. Yet this date was not ...

Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2026 with 364 days to follow. This is New Year's Day. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening ...

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Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so many other calendar systems — such as the Chinese, Islamic or Hebrew calendar ...