This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Christianity on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ChristianityWikipedia:WikiProject ChristianityTemplate:WikiProject ChristianityChristianity articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Holidays, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of holidays on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HolidaysWikipedia:WikiProject HolidaysTemplate:WikiProject HolidaysHolidays articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Retailing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of retailing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RetailingWikipedia:WikiProject RetailingTemplate:WikiProject RetailingRetailing articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica articles
Boxing Day is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Caribbean, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the countries of the Caribbean on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines.CaribbeanWikipedia:WikiProject CaribbeanTemplate:WikiProject CaribbeanCaribbean articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Guyana, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Guyana on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GuyanaWikipedia:WikiProject GuyanaTemplate:WikiProject GuyanaGuyana articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hong Kong, a project to coordinate efforts in improving all Hong Kong-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other Hong Kong-related articles, you are invited to join this project.Hong KongWikipedia:WikiProject Hong KongTemplate:WikiProject Hong KongHong Kong articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New Zealand and New Zealand-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New ZealandWikipedia:WikiProject New ZealandTemplate:WikiProject New ZealandNew Zealand articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject South Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of South Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.South AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject South AfricaTemplate:WikiProject South AfricaSouth Africa articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trinidad and Tobago, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the country of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines.Trinidad and TobagoWikipedia:WikiProject Trinidad and TobagoTemplate:WikiProject Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
The article is currently blocked due to "persistent vandalism", so I can't correct an error. The "persistent vandalism" consisted of one formatting mistake by an IP editor, followed by a single instance of silliness by another IP editor; this is hardly persistent! Anyway, someone has removed the statement that Boxing Day always falls on 26th December, even when this date is a Saturday or Sunday, claiming this to be untrue. In fact, it is true. Boxing Day is always 26th December.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. It was, and possibly still is, widely held that Boxing Day cannot fall on a Sunday, but it is not universally held. I can remember one year (probably in the 1976, maybe 1971) when the Radio Times (then a BBC only TV/Radio listings magazine) labelled Monday 27th as Boxing Day, whereas the TV Times (non-BBC TV listings) labelled Sunday 26th as Boxing Day.
Whether this belief arose because 27 December would be a Bank Holiday if 26 December is a Sunday I cannot say. The Acts of Parliament make no use of the term 'Boxing Day' and I think Wikipedia would be well advised to do the same thing.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point. You're saying Boxing Day = December 26th no matter what, but the bank holiday associated it with it might be on the 27th or 28th? Schazjmd(talk)00:14, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And now I'm reading the article and it's saying exactly what I just said. I'm still not clear what you want added, and even the article you linked to says Boxing Day is a bank holiday. If Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, the following Monday is a bank holiday.Schazjmd(talk)00:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think the confusion is due to the need to differentiate between Boxing Day and its associated bank holiday; they are not quite the same thing. Perhaps to clarify, consider Christmas Day. If 25th Dec falls on a Saturday it is still Christmas Day, but the related bank holiday is moved to Monday, 27th (in which case the Boxing Day bank holiday is moved to Tuesday, 28th, but Boxing Day itself is still Sunday, 26th). At least, this is how it is in the UK. This is the edit I was concerned about [2]. That said, the wording of the deleted sentence could be slightly improved. 31.52.165.66 (talk) 00:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think the article covers that: Boxing Day is on 26 December, although the attached bank holiday or public holiday may take place either on that day or two days later.Schazjmd(talk)00:32, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In the section Status by country this is the problem statement: When 26 December falls on a Saturday, Boxing Day is moved to the following Monday. If 26 December falls on a Sunday, the substitute public holiday is the following Tuesday. Here's what it should read: If Boxing Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the associated public holiday is moved to the following Monday or Tuesday.31.52.160.202 (talk) 11:14, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that change (being less specific) is an improvement. I changed this: When 26 December falls on a Saturday, Boxing Day the public holiday is on the following Monday.Schazjmd(talk)18:42, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Purely as an observation re the above: I was born in the UK in 1954. When I was a child Boxing Day was always the first weekday after Christmas. I'm not talking about holidays here, just 'Boxing Day' proper. If the 25th was a Saturday the 26th was called 'Christmas Sunday' and the 27th was Boxing Day (see also entry for Christmas Sunday which is not one I have worked on). If the 25th was a Friday then Saturday was 'Christmas Saturday', the 27th was 'Christmas Sunday' and the 28th was Boxing Day. At all other times Boxing Day was the 26th. I can't point to published authorities for this, only the fact that I lived it. From the references to the TV guides in the 1970s above it would appear this usage was fading by then. Given that this is only personal experience I'm not proposing changes to the main text.JordiYiman (talk) 00:05, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Actually the next day after Christmas is a celebrated day in all Christianity as the day of Love. There are many languages where Love is a name for a female and there is a saint Love in the Christian Religion. The name Boxing Day is just an Anglo-Saxon custom. It is a holiday in all Christian countries and if it falls in a weekend the holiday is moved to the next working day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.120.7 (talk) 12:46, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This is utter nonsense. There is no saint Love and "the day of love" is not celebrated in all Christianity. Where's the source?
The whole section on Bank Holidays is superfluous here at least as far as the UK is concerned. UK legislation does not use the term Boxing Day, so to say that Boxing Day is a Bank Holiday is at worst contentious and at best meaningless. Bank Holidays are covered in other articles so there is no need to go into the details of them here.
The author who is asserting that Boxing Day is always December 26 is wrong, and even the article itself contradicts him/her, citing the first recorded reference to Boxing Day explaining that it is the first weekday after Christmas Day - a very clear assertion that it does not fall on a Sunday. When I corrected the intro to the article in this vein, and admin asked me to give a source (so I just used the same source as in the "date" section). Why is no source required for the assertion that Boxing Day always falls on 26/12? That workers received their Christmas Box on a Sunday is unthinkable, so if that is origin then the assertion is wrong.
As there is no legal definition of Boxing Day, and it is not a religious holiday, its meaning all comes down to custom and tradition. The only facts appear to be that some people hold that it always falls on 26 December, whereas others hold that it does not fall on a Sunday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardinal 1962 (talk • contribs) 09:45, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Effectively the older tradition has been largely superseded and there are clashes because rules people used to be taught are no longer abided by. I remember a mess in 1993 (the first Sunday 26th December in over a decade) when even the Radio and TV Times disagreed. Increasingly a lot of post Christmas activities happen or start on the 26th (not that long ago things often waited until the first full weekday) and are invariably referred to as "Boxing Day" every year - next year the "Boxing Day sales" will start on Sunday, there will be "Boxing Day football" and so forth and they will all be using "Boxing Day" to mean that very day. However some older traditional events will not start/happen on Sunday 26th - for instance the "Boxing Day hunts" will not happen until the next day. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:22, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It seems there was internal debate at the Radio Times and come 1999 the Sunday 26 side won. But contrary to what the article suggests I don't think it was the 1994 Sunday Trading Act that changed things. Instead it seems the BBC was a late hold out with a big internal debate in 1993 and then come 1999 they just conformed to what everyone else was doing. Others had gone for Sunday 26 in 1993 including the TV Times and Whitaker's Almanack.[3] Football seems to have been split between the 26[4] and 27.[5] The Liverpool Echo suggests the sales were on the Sunday[6] - remember that the old Sunday closing laws were widely flouted especially if the fines would be exceeded by the potential profits.[7]Timrollpickering (talk) 12:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
