Leap year This makes it easy to convert dates to or from Gregorian. The Thai solar calendar uses the Buddhist Era (BE), but has been synchronized with the Gregorian since AD 1941. From AD 8 the Julian calendar received an extra day added to February in years that are multiples of 4. The Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar also add an extra day to the end of the year once every four years before a Julian 29-day February. This rule gives an average year length of 365.25 days. However, it is 11 minutes longer than a tropical year. This means that the
365-day calendar length of 365 days with no rule for leap days, despite potential leap year rules being acknowledged by the 9th century at the latest. In particular, of the versions still in use today the Qadimi version does not have any form of leap rule; the Shahanshahi version had one leap month added in the 12th century but no leap years since, while the Fasli version (introduced in the 20th century) adds one day every four years. 365-day calendar A 365-day calendar consists of exactly 365 days per year (no leap days), and is primarily used in computer models and as