Adam Diary - Iran Personal

Few points about calendars used in Iran: 1)in Iran,we have a Persian calendar which is based on sun's motion and is officially the reference of date in country. it's called Jalali ,Persian or Solar Hijri (Hijri Shamsi) calendar. 2)there is also a second one which used for islamic and religious matters. It's called Lunar Hijri and is based on moon,it's movement and looks. 3)both Solar and Lunar Hijri have common starting point in history: it was the day prophet Muhammad (PBUH) immigrated secretly from Mecca to Medina,escaping from those who wanted to murder him.(hijri means emigration in Arabic) now there are more than 40 years apart in numbers(we are now in 1401 solar Hijri and 1444 Lunar Hijri). That's because the moon-based calendar is shorter than sun-based one,leading to shorter year and more years at long time in history. 4)Lunar Hijri is about 11-13 days shorter than Solar one,so the islamic year is not fixed with our calendar and rotates.for example, five days ago (July 31th) the new islamic year has begun,with the begining of Muharram-first month of Lunar Hijri Year. Next Islamic year will begin in July 18th 2023,which is about 13 days behind this year. 5)first day of Iranian year is in march,and it's called Nowrooz-which I talked about that before in channel. 6)Persian calendar has 12 months,which first 6 month are 31 days,next 5 month are 30 days and last month is 29 or 30 days,depending on whether it's a leap year or not