> ...  I was hoping to avoid all contact with Christmas - you mean it
> goes on for two whole days.

Two whole days plus an extra hour - we get an hour's head start on the world
here in New Zealand thanks to daylight saving. As the people just across the
dateline from us are just starting yesterday as we start today, it's 24
hours after we start Christmas until they start. So it's two whole planetary
revolutions before the day passes away entirely plus the one hour headstart
we get. The last ringing of the welkin occurs a whole 49 hours after
Christmas first dawns on our shores. If someone in Alaska would add some
daylight losing (and why not, I ask) we could extend it out to an even 50
hours.


        RM

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