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What's with this fascination with sundown that the Jews have?
Sundown ends the day/Starts the new day. So instead of 12AM each day ends/begins with the sundown. It is "confirmed" by the ordering in each day in the book you would call Genesis, i.e., "there was evening, there was morning".
It isn't only the Jews. Their current antagonists, the Muslims, segregate days similarly. So, if you're looking,, you'll see info on, say, Ramadan starting at sundown.
Such an ordering is likely the by-product of having a lunar calendar, though they don't share the same one.
The muslim's often has a shorter year since they hold fast to a strict lunar year of like 354 or so days.
The Jews add the occasional "leap month" to keep holidays in season [Passover & Sukkot around its respective equinox, Chanukkah around the solstice, etc.]
Christians somewhat follow a lunar calendar for their holiest day, Easter, which is why Easter and the days based on Easter [Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, etc.] vary. Because of Jewish leap years, sometimes Easter & Passover don't exactly mesh. But, more often than not they overlap.
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