Boxing Day Rules!

[nq:1]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
Debenhams announced a sale starting on Boxing Day, 26th December. Our local Morris Dancers announced a performance at the Crown and Thistle on Boxing Day but they meant today. I am very confused: I thought today was Sunday until the pape

[nq:1]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
You Brits decide on Boxing Day ('magine it's got to do with some usage of "celebrated"); all's I know is Saint Stephen's were yesterday. Good King Wenceslaus looked out and all that.

[nq:2]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
[nq:1]You Brits decide on Boxing Day ('magine it's got to do with some usage of "celebrated"); all's I know is Saint Stephen's were yesterday. Good King Wenceslaus looked out and all that.[/nq]
I was somewhat surprised to see "Boxing

[nq:1]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
It's weird. It'd be interesting to see the Radio Times and newspapers of the last time the 26th was a Sunday. I remember that Boxing Day was always the Monday in such a case, with the 26th being "Christmas Sunday". Having Boxing Day alwa

[nq:2]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
[nq:1]Debenhams announced a sale starting on Boxing Day, 26th December. Our local Morris Dancers announced a performance at the Crown ... until the paper arrived and I realised that the visitors I was expecting tomorrow will be turning u

[nq:2]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's weird. It'd be interesting to see the Radio Times and newspapers of the last time the 26th was a ... age, and I'm surprised that traditionalist organisations such as the BBC, the Daily Mail, etc. would go along with it.[/nq]

[nq:2]Debenhams announced a sale starting on Boxing Day, 26th December. ... I was expecting tomorrow will be turning up this evening.[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it was all to do with not being able to have a Bank Holiday on either a Saturday ... of us still think of Boxing Day as the day after Christmas Day anyway, this sort of caper always backfires.[/nq]
According to my calendar, which blames

[nq:1]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on? Matti[/nq]
Surely the names of the days for the 25th. & 26th. remain the same and the Monday & Tuesday are just two working days declared as public holidays to make up for the fact that the others fell on on a weekend.

BTW you

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[nq:1]According to my calendar, which blames HM Nautical Almanac Office for its information, TOMORROW is Boxing Day, 28th. Today is "Christmas Bank Holiday"; yesterday was St Stephen's Day, a religious holiday and not a valid bank holiday label.[/nq]
My calendar and the Radio Times agree that yesterday 26th was Boxing Day. Today is Monday Bank Holiday.

[nq:1]Boxing Day is today, I reckon. The rule seems to have changed, though, because everyone else seems to think it happened yesterday. What's going on?[/nq]
According to one commentator I read (and with whom, without a shade of evidence other than personal prejudice, I find myself in agreement), it's a confusion of Boxing Day and of the associated bank holiday. As far as I'm concerned, Boxin