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  2. Lunar month - Wikipedia

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    In English common law, a "lunar month" traditionally meant exactly 28 days or four weeks, thus a contract for 12 months ran for exactly 48 weeks. [2] In the United Kingdom, the lunar month was formally replaced by the calendar month for deeds and other written contracts by section 61(a) of the Law of Property Act 1925 and for post-1850 ...

  3. Lunar calendar - Wikipedia

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    Since each lunation is approximately 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, [1] it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds (354.36707 days), [1] purely lunar calendars are 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year.

  4. Lunisolar calendar - Wikipedia

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    A tropical year is approximately 365.2422 days long and a synodic month is approximately 29.5306 days long, [4] so a tropical year is approximately 365.2422 / 29.5306 ≈ 12.36826 months long. Because 0.36826 is between 1 ⁄ 3 and 1 ⁄ 2, a typical year of 12 months needs to be supplemented with one intercalary or leap month every 2 to 3 ...

  5. Balinese saka calendar - Wikipedia

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    Information about the Saka calendar on a Balinese wall calendar. Based on a lunar calendar, the saka year comprises twelve months, or sasih, of 30 days each.However, because the lunar cycle is slightly shorter than 30 days, and the lunar year has a length of 354 or 355 days, the calendar is adjusted to prevent it losing synchronization with the lunar or solar cycles.

  6. Chinese calendar - Wikipedia

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    The complete lunar months are numbered from 0 to 10, and the incomplete lunar month is considered the 11th month. If there are 12 complete (and one incomplete) lunar months within a solar year, it is known as a leap year (a year possessing an intercalary month).

  7. Month - Wikipedia

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    A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.

  8. Metonic cycle - Wikipedia

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    A synodic month lasts 29.53059 days. [22] a span of 235 synodic months (29.53059 × 235) lasts 6,939.689 days; Thus the algorithm is correct to 0.087 days (2 hours, 5 minutes and 16 seconds). For a lunisolar calendar to 'catch up' to this discrepancy and thus maintain seasonal consistency, seven intercalary months are added (one at a time), at ...

  9. Javanese calendar - Wikipedia

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    There are thus 1440 lunar months, or 15 windu in a kurup. One day is dropped from the last month of Besar having 30 days, resulting in the last windu of the kurup having one less day than usual. Thus, the total number of days in a kurup is 42,524 (2,835 days in a windu x 15 windu - 1 day).