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  2. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.

  3. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    19 Mehr 1403. A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 October 2024" is ten days after "15 October 2024". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time ...

  4. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    The month in which the year began, as well as the names of the months, differed among the states, and in some parts even no names existed for the months, as they were distinguished only numerically, as the first, second, third, fourth month, etc. The ancient Athenian calendar was a lunisolar calendar with 354-day years, consisting of twelve ...

  5. Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system.

  6. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Yes. Long formats: English: mmmm d, yyyy DMY dates are also used occasionally, primarily by, but not limited to, government institutions such as on the data page of passports, and immigration and customs forms. Filipino: ika- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy [ 135 ] or a- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy (Note: Month and year can be shortened.

  7. Legal year - Wikipedia

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    The legal year commences at the beginning of October, with a ceremony dating back to the Middle Ages in which the judges arrive in a procession from the Temple Bar to Westminster Abbey for a religious service, followed by a reception known as the Lord Chancellor's breakfast, which is held in Westminster Hall. Although in former times the judges ...

  8. 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.

  9. Calendar year - Wikipedia

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    The Lunar Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. The astronomer's mean tropical year, which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices, is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars. A year can also be measured by starting on any other named ...