It may sound off but: Today, Sunday December 26, isn't actually Boxing Day.
"You're off your rocker!" I hear you cry into your Christmas Day leftovers.
Well, it's true. And it's all because of a little technicality which means on this rare occasion the day-after-Christmas-Day isn't what we normally call it.
Boxing Day is actually December 27 if the December 26 is Christmas Sunday. And today is exactly that.
The practice of bumping Boxing Day to make way for Christmas Sunday has mostly fallen out of the public consciousness and it's primarily down to the rise of Boxing Day sales since the mid 1990s.
In Christianity, Christmas Sunday usually coincides with the 'Sunday After the Nativity' feast day that commemorates King David, Saint Joseph and James.
Boxing Day was officially recognised as a bank holiday in England, Northern Ireland and Wales in 1871 and in Scotland it was recognised as an official bank holiday in 1974.
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