Yule? Not for all of us

File under Learn something new every day, and cross reference to But it actually does if you think about it, this from David Morgan-Mar, whose Irregular Webcomic you ought to check out if you don't already read it:

"Yule is originally a pagan winter festival, held roughly around the winter solstice. The word and the occasion have since migrated around a bit in date and meaning, until today where Yule is most commonly either conflated with Christmas, or celebrated separately on the night of the winter solstice.

Interestingly, here in Australia, with the end of the year occurring in summer, we've actually moved Yule to the middle of winter - in June - while keeping Christmas in sweltering hot December. Nobody ever said these things had to make sense."