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Long reads about time: alarms, sleep, time zones, daylight saving and counting days.

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Time zones 4 min read

Chest day workout

A chest day workout is a session built around pressing and fly patterns for the chest. It is pushing practice, not a complete athletic week.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chevy chase national lampoon christmas

Chevy Chase National Lampoon Christmas is the 1989 film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, with Chase as Clark Griswold. It is a holiday comedy, not a civil date.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chevy chase vacation christmas

Chevy Chase Vacation Christmas is the Christmas chapter of the Vacation films: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), with Chase as Clark. The family stays home; the chaos does not.

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Calendar 4 min read

China national day

China National Day is 1 October, the anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. In 2026 it falls on Thursday; in 2027 on Friday. It is a civil state day, not Chinese New Year.

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Chinese astrology year of the ox

In Chinese astrology, the Ox is one of the animals in the repeating zodiac cycle. A person’s zodiac designation depends on the relevant lunar calendar boundary, so a birth year alone may be insufficie

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Chinese calendar

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar: months follow the moon, and extra months keep the year lined up with the seasons. Chinese New Year is the first day of the first lunar month, not 1 January.

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Chinese curse interesting times

“May you live in interesting times” is an English saying often sold as a Chinese curse. It is not a proven Chinese proverb, and it is not a holiday on any official calendar.

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Chinese dates

Chinese dates may mean dates in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese holiday dates, or the edible fruits commonly called Chinese dates or jujubes. Clarifying the intended meaning is essential bef

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Chinese lantern festival

The Chinese Lantern Festival closes the traditional Lunar New Year celebration. Families and communities mark it with lantern displays and festive foods, while public events may add performances, ridd

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese lunar new year

Chinese Lunar New Year is Spring Festival: day one of the first lunisolar month. Lunar New Year in English is a wider label and is not a safe synonym for every neighbour’s new year.

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Time zones 4 min read

Chinese moon festival

The Chinese moon festival is Mid-Autumn Festival, the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month. In 2026 that night is Friday, 25 September. Mooncakes belong to that night.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese national day holiday

Chinese National Day is 1 October, marking the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China. The mainland holiday is usually stretched into a Golden Week of consecutive days off.

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Chinese new year animals

Chinese New Year starts the next animal in a twelve-year cycle. The animal is a year sign that changes on the lunar new year, not on 1 January.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese new year celebration

A Chinese New Year celebration is the reunion meal, visits, red gifts, and public shows around Spring Festival. It follows the lunar first day, not 1 January on the office wall.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese new year decorations

Chinese New Year decorations are the red couplets, lanterns, paper cuttings, and fortune characters put up for Spring Festival. They mark the lunar new year, not 1 January, and they are not the same k

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese new year greetings

Chinese New Year greetings are Spring Festival wishes such as Xin Nian Kuai Le and Gong Xi Fa Cai. They belong to the lunar new year, not to 1 January.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese new year lanterns

Chinese New Year lanterns are the red and paper lights hung for Spring Festival. They peak on the fifteenth lunar night, the Lantern Festival, which closed the 2026 season on 3 March.

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Holidays 4 min read

Chinese new year traditions

Chinese New Year traditions are the reunion meal, the house cleaning, the red gifts, the visits, and the noise that keep Spring Festival. They follow the lunar first day, not 1 January on the office w

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Calendar 4 min read

Chinese year of the dragon

The Chinese year of the dragon is the Dragon animal year on the lunisolar cycle. The last one covered most of 2024; the next one begins in 2036. It is not the number on a passport.

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Chinese year of the horse

The Chinese Year of the Horse is one part of the traditional twelve-animal zodiac cycle. A Horse year begins at Lunar New Year rather than January 1, so a person’s zodiac sign depends on the relevant

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Hours and minutes 4 min read

Chipotle hours

Chipotle hours are the serving times of a specific restaurant. They differ by site and can change for holidays or renovations. There is no single closing time for every Chipotle.

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Holidays 4 min read

Christmas activities

Christmas activities are the things people do for the December holiday: decorating, cooking, giving, visiting, singing, walking, and sitting still. They fill the season. The feast day itself remains 2

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Holidays 4 min read

Christmas advent calendar

A Christmas Advent calendar is a countdown with a door, pocket, or window for each day until Christmas Eve, most often twenty-four, from 1 December. It marks the wait, not the feast itself.

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Holidays 4 min read

Christmas adventurers club

The Christmas Adventurers Club is a fictional secret society in the 2025 film One Battle After Another. It is not a real holiday club, and the film is not a Christmas movie.

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