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January is the 1st month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The 1st day of the month is known as New Year's Day.It's, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the 2nd month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
Ianuarius, Januarius, or January, fully Mensis Ianuarius ("month of Janus") and abbreviated Ian., was the first month of the ancient Roman calendar, from which the Julian and Gregorian month of January derived. It was followed by Februarius ("February"). In the calendars of the Roman Republic, Ianuarius had 29 days.
Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month number and year in left-to-right writing direction) in Afar, French and Somali ("d/m/yy" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d format (Day first, month number, and year in right-to-left writing direction) in Arabic language.
The lunar month is divided into two halves, the first of 15 days and the second of 14 or 15 days. The month is calculated to start at the first quarter moon, with the full moon at the centre of the first half-month and the dark moon at the centre of the second half-month. The calendar does not rely on unreliable visual sightings.
This resulted in scribes and scholars referring to them as "the first month", "the fifth month", etc. [citation needed] To keep the lunar year of 354 days in step with the solar year of 365.242 days an extra month was added periodically, much like a Gregorian leap year. [10]
In the Hebrew calendar it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of Aviv (Ex 13:4) בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הָאָבִֽיב ḥōḏeš hāʾāḇîḇ). It is called Nissān in the Book of Esther. It is a month of 30 days.
The calendar year can also be divided into quadrimesters (from French quadrimestre), [5] lasting for four months each. They can also be called the early, middle, or late parts of the year. In the Gregorian calendar: First quadrimester, early year: January 1 – April 30 (120 days or 121 days in leap years)
Varro, writing in the first century BC, says "the twelfth month was February, and when intercalations take place the five last days of this month are removed." [ 83 ] Since all the days after the Ides of Intercalaris were counted down to the beginning of March, the month had either 27 days (making 377 for the year) or 28 (making 378 for the year).