The longest night of the year

The precise moment of the 2006 winter solstice will be December 21, 2006 at 7:22 P.M. EST when the sun will be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn.

It seems to me that it would have been good if Pope Gregory had adjusted his calendar to make New Years day align with the winter solstice. Of course we would have had to move Christmas to New Years Day and then where would we be. Well, it might be that we would have moved Christmas to the fall equinox but that would really be confusing