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In general the use of number-only page names should only be used for "Year in Review" entries. By community consensus, an article title that is a number in Arabic numerals 1 through 100 is about the number (or hosts a DAB), not the year. (This has since been extended to numbers up to 150, and a few other specific examples like 911.)
The Gregorian calendar year, which is in use as civil calendar in most of the world, begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. [1] It has a length of 365 days in an ordinary year but, in order to reconcile the calendar year with the astronomical cycle, it has 366 days in a leap year. With 97 leap years every 400 years, the Gregorian calendar ...
A common exception is names of publications, and publishers named for them, e.g.: The New York Times, The New York Times Company. In some cases, leading articles (usually The) are an integral part of the company name (as determined by usage in independent reliable sources) and should be included, especially when necessary for disambiguation, e.g.:
All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems:
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "1/21/24" or "01/21/2024") and the expanded form (e.g., "January 21, 2024"—usually spoken with the year as a cardinal number and the day as an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first, twenty twenty-four"), with the historical rationale that the year was often of lesser ...
A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 January 2025" is ten days after "15 January 2025". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.
Ancient calendars (static) may always have been annual, even after the length of the calendar year was fixed at (avg.) 365.25 days by the Julian Calendar (46 BC). Early Romans observed an 8-day market week, called the nundinal cycle, until the seven-day week was adopted during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great (306-337).