Mid-Autumn Festival other parts of Asia. Like the Mid-Autumn Festival, these festivals have Buddhist origins and revolve around the full moon however unlike their East Asian counterparts they occur several times a year to correspond with each full moon as opposed to one day each year. The festivals that occur in the lunar months of "Ashvini" and "Kṛttikā" generally occur during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Cambodia, it is more commonly called "Full Moon Festival" by locals (as Cambodia does not have an Autumn season). Cambodians organize “the traditional festival of prostrating the moon". In that early morning, people start preparing sacrifices to
March equinox about 18 hours 11 minutes "earlier" than the previous year. Balancing the increases of the common years against the losses of the leap years keeps the calendar date of the March equinox from drifting more than one day from 20 March each year. The March equinox may be taken to mark the beginning of spring and the end of winter in the Northern Hemisphere but marks the beginning of autumn and the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. In astronomy, the March equinox is the zero point of sidereal time and, consequently, right ascension. It also serves as a