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
Calendar reform entirely, to make the calendar perennial. Around 1930 Colligan invented the Pax Calendar, which avoids off-calendar days by adding a 7-day leap week to the 364-day common year for 71 out of 400 years. In 1993, Lloydine and José Argüelles founded the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement. Dividing the years into 52 weeks creates 13 months of 28 days (4 weeks), and 4 quarters of 91 days (13 weeks). This creates months and quarters of fixed, even duration, but not quarters containing a whole number of months. Instead of a leap week or an extra day and a