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The Iranian calendar or Iranian chronology (Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh Šomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative purposes.
It is a solar calendar and is the one Iranian calendar that is the most similar to the Gregorian calendar, being based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun. It begins on the March equinox as determined by the astronomical calculation for the Iran Standard Time meridian (52.5°E, UTC+03:30 ) and has years of 365 or 366 days.
English-language governmental and academic documents use DMY. Iran: Yes: Yes: No: Short format: yyyy/mm/dd [80] in Persian Calendar system ("yy/m/d" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules in Persian literature but tend to be written in the dd/mm/yyyy format in official English documents. [81]
This is a list of Hijri years (Latin: anno Hegirae or AH) with the corresponding common era years where applicable. For Hijri years since 1297 AH (1879/1881 CE), the Gregorian date of 1 Muharram, the first day of the year in the Islamic calendar, is given.
In Iran, short dates are written as year/month/day, for example ۱۳۸۹/۵/۱۶, [1] and long dates as day month name year from right to left, for example ۱۶ مرداد ۱۳۸۹. Both two-digit and four-digit years are valid but months and days are not usually padded with leading zeros.
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Dey (Persian: دی, Persian pronunciation: [1]) is the tenth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It marks the start of winter. [ 1 ] It has thirty days, [ 1 ] beginning in December and ending in January of the Gregorian Calendar .
Tir (Persian: تیر, Persian pronunciation: [1]) is the fourth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, which is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. [1] Tir has thirty-one days, [1] spanning parts of June and July in the Gregorian calendar [citation needed]. In Afghan Persian it is called Saraṭān (Cancer).