Akan calendar each Akan year tends to be the various yam festivals celebrated around August or September. The lunar cycle and 28-day month are not carefully observed, except by the coastal Akan who are interested in tides as they affect fishing. Still, the month is known as "bosome". It consists of 28 days rather than the 30 or 31 days of the Gregorian calendar. Three "bosome" make two Adaduanan. Since the arrival of Swiss missionaries from Basel in the early nineteenth century, Christian Akan scholars have tended to 'Akanize' the Roman calendar rather than observe, analyse and explain the Akan calendar based
Leap week calendar full weeks (364 or 371 days). Leap week calendars vary on whether the concept of month is preserved and whether the month (if preserved) has a whole number of weeks. The Pax Calendar and Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar (formerly the Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time) preserve or modify the Gregorian month structure. The ISO week date and the Weekdate Dating System are examples of leap week calendars that eliminate the month. Most leap week calendars take advantage of the 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar, which has exactly 20,871 weeks. With 329 common years of 52 weeks plus 71 leap years of 53 weeks, leap