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The cross-quarter days are four holidays falling in between the quarter days: Candlemas (2 February), May Day (1 May), Lammas (1 August), and All Hallows (1 November). At many schools, class terms would begin on the quarter days; for example, the autumn term would start on 29 September, and thus continues to be called the Michaelmas term ...
A calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days. The Gregorian calendar year, which is in use as civil calendar in most of the world, begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. [1]
Scottish term and quarter days mark the four divisions (terms and quarters) of the legal year in Scotland. These were historically used as the days when contracts and leases would begin and end, servants would be hired or dismissed, and rent, interest on loans, and ministers ' stipends would become due.
The first and second month of each quarter have thirty days, and the third month 31 days. This accounts for 91 days in each quarter, or 364 days in all. The remaining day in ordinary years is "New Year's Day". It is given no other descriptive title. It does not belong to any week or any month. It begins the year.
The term "quarter tense" is derived from the official Latin name; "quattuor tempora" ("the four times"). In the Irish language, Quarter Tense is Cátaoir, Cátaoir na timpire, Aimsir Chátaoireach, or Laethanta na gCeithre Thráth (lit. "the days of the four times"). The old dates in the Irish calendar for the observation of Quarter Tense were:
The first quarter of the year runs from January through March, the second quarter is from April through June, and so on. But companies operate on business-oriented “fiscal quarters” instead.
As Spectrum News reported, because it takes Earth 365.25 days to complete a rotation around the sun, that extra quarter of a day makes the spring equinox fluctuate from year to year. Next year ...
The company is holding an investor day in New York City and will have a tall order in reawakening the near-term bull thesis on the stock following the guidance. ... Fourth quarter net sales:-3.1% ...