Julian calendar February shown in the "Fasti Caeretani", which is dated before 12 BC. Caesar's reform only applied to the Roman calendar. However, in the following decades many of the local civic and provincial calendars of the empire and neighbouring client kingdoms were aligned to the Julian calendar by transforming them into calendars with years of 365 days with an extra day intercalated every four years. The reformed calendars typically retained many features of the unreformed calendars. In many cases, the New Year was not on 1 January, the leap day was not on the bissextile day, the old month names were
Middle-earth calendar the three extra days in every third "yén" (once every 432 years), for an average year length of ≈365.24306 days. In Rivendell, the "loa" began on the spring equinox and was divided into six "months" or seasons, as follows. Five other days, two between "coirë" and "tuilë" and three between "yávië" and "quellë", meant the calendar added up to 365 days. Irregularities were allowed for by adding another three days every twelve years, except the last year of a "yén". The calendar developed by the Men of Middle-earth is called the King's Reckoning, and is in many ways similar to