Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

[James Knott]

Mark Lane wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, James Knott<james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>>      
>>> Christmas in Polish tradition starts in the evening of 24th of December.
>>>        
>> Christmas was also a Celtic pagan event that was hijacked by Christian
>> pagans.
>>
>>      
> No the date of Christmas was most likely based on the Roman
> Celibration of the Winter Solistice.
>
> It was Holloween which was based on old celtic rituals. Though the
> date is based on the All Saint's Day.
>    
Either way, may of the Christian pagan festivals have been hijacked from 
older ones.
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