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Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna. This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2024 AD is indicated as 2567 BE in Thailand.
All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems: D – day; M – month; Y – year; Specific formats for the basic components: yy – two-digit year, e.g. 24; yyyy – four-digit ...
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar (Anno Domini), so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 waning moon days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days.
Today, both the Common Era New Year's Day (1 January) and the traditional Thai New Year (สงกรานต์, Songkran) celebrations (13–15 April) are public holidays in Thailand. In the traditional Thai calendar, the change to the next Chinese zodiacal animal occurs at Songkran (now fixed at 13 April.) [4] For Thai Chinese communities ...
Thailand declared on 16 March 1920 that people would move their clocks ahead by 17 minutes, 56 seconds on 31 March 1920 to match the time in use in Southeast Asia. The time was switched on 1 April 1920 at 00:00 (old time) to 00:17:56 (new time).
The calendar that is used for Date format. The order in which the year, month, and day are represented. (Year-month-day, day-month-year, and month-day-year are the common combinations.) How weeks are identified (see seven-day week) Whether written months are identified by name, by number (1–12), or by Roman numeral (I-XII).
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There are only four countries which have not adopted the Gregorian calendar for civil use: Ethiopia (Ethiopian calendar), Nepal (Vikram Samvat and Nepal Sambat), Iran (Solar Hijri calendar) [1] and Afghanistan (Lunar Hijri Calendar). [2] Thailand has adopted the Gregorian calendar for days and months, but uses its own era for years: the ...