Happy New Year

[carrie]

I know I am a little previous but Happy New Year for tomorrow.

[Dusak]

Have I been in a coma? Did I get my visa?

[Winged Isis]

Jewish New Year.

[newcastle]

The Islamic New Year and the Jewish New Year almost coincide in 2017...but it's a coincidence.

Both calendars are amongst the weirdest in existence. The Jewish year is particularly bizarre. I quote :

"The Hebrew lunar year is about eleven days shorter than the solar year and uses the 19-year Metonic cycle to bring it into line with the solar year, with the addition of an intercalary month every two or three years, for a total of seven times per 19 years. Even with this intercalation, the average Hebrew calendar year is longer by about 6 minutes and 40 seconds than the current mean tropical year, so that every 216 years the Hebrew calendar will fall a day behind the current mean tropical year; and about every 231 years it will fall a day behind the mean Gregorian calendar year"

So now you know !

[carrie]

To clarify Happy Islamic New Year to everyone.