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* 12 months in a year
* 12 months in a year
* 30 days in months of an odd number; 29 days in months of an even number
* 30 days in months of an odd number; 29 days in months of an even number
* Leap month is the last month
* Month with the leap day is the last month
* Leap year is the year when the remainder of the error is over half a day
* Leap year is the year when the remainder of the error is over half a day
* Waxing crescent is the first day of a month
* Waxing crescent is the first day of a month

Revision as of 04:11, 30 May 2022

This is a list of calendar and timekeeping around the world.

Calendar

name country/region description
Gregorian calendar world
  • The year one is the year of presumed birth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • 12 months in a year
  • Days for months: 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31
  • The leap day is placed in the second month
  • 1 leap day every 4 years, except when the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400
  • (97 leaps in 400 years)
Chinese calendar China
  • The year one is the year of presumed birth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • 12 or 13 months in a year
  • The month with winter solstice is the first month
  • Leap month is the first month without a solar term of an even number
  • 29 or 30 days in a month, determined by the moon phase
  • New Moon is the first day of a month
  • (7 leaps in 19 years)
Islamic calendar Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain,

Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Chad,

Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt,

Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan,

Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia,

Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, North Macedonia,

Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic,

Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan,

Tanzania, The Gambia, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan,

United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen

  • The year one is the year of Hijrah
  • 12 months in a year
  • 30 days in months of an odd number; 29 days in months of an even number
  • Month with the leap day is the last month
  • Leap year is the year when the remainder of the error is over half a day
  • Waxing crescent is the first day of a month
  • Sunset is the start or end of a day
  • (11 leaps in 30 years: year 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 29)

Timekeeping

name country/region description
common timekeeping world
  • 1 day is divided by 12 units ‘hour’ evenly
  • 1 hour is divided by 60 units ‘minute’ evenly
  • 1 minute is divided by 60 units ‘second’ evenly
Chinese timekeeping China
  • 1 day is divided by 12 units ‘時’ evenly
  • 1 時 is divided into 2 parts: ‘初’, ‘正’
  • Every 初 and 正 is divided by 4 units ‘刻’ evenly
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