Solar Hijri calendar | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/12/2018

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Solar Hijri calendar


00:01:31 1 In Iran
00:04:33 2 In Afghanistan
00:05:14 3 Details of the modern calendar
00:05:44 3.1 Month names
00:06:26 3.2 Days of the week
00:07:55 3.3 Solar Hijri and Gregorian calendars
00:08:33 4 Solar Hijri algorithmic calendar
00:09:56 4.1 Accuracy
00:10:56 5 See also



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The Solar Hijri calendar (Persian: گاه‌شماری هجری خورشیدی‎, translit. gāh-shomāri-ye hejri-ye khorshidi; Pashto: لمريز لېږدیز کلیز‎), also called the Solar Hejri calendar or Shamsi Hijri calendar, and abbreviated as SH, is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It begins on the March equinox (Nowruz) as determined by astronomical calculation for the Iran Standard Time meridian (52.5°E or GMT+3.5h) and has years of 365 or 366 days.
Its determination of the start of each year is astronomically accurate year-to-year as opposed to the more fixed Gregorian calendar or "Common Era calendar", which averaged out, has the same year length, achieving the same accuracy (a more simply patterned calendar of 365 days for three consecutive years plus an extra day in the next year, save for exceptions to the latter in three out of every four centenaries). The start of the year and its number of days remain fixed to one of the two equinoxes, the astronomically important days which have the same duration of the sun.  It results in less variability of all celestial bodies comparing a specific calendar date from one year to others.Each of the twelve months corresponds with a zodiac sign. The first six months have 31 days, the next five have 30 days, and the last month has 29 days in usual years but 30 days in leap years. The New Year's Day always falls on the March equinox.