happy New Years Day_♥ March 14, 2014 ਨਾਨਕਸ਼ਾਹੀ, nānakashāhī) Nanakshahi Sikh calendar start with the birth of Guru Nanak in 1472, thus year 2014 is considered to be Nanakshahi 543. The calendar is based on the length of the tropical solar year, instead of the lunar cycle, meaning that dates will not fluctuate from year to year as they did previously under the old lunar based calendar. The epoch of this calendar is the birth of, Nanak Dev in 1469. New Years Day falls annually on what is March 14 Calendar is a tropical solar calendar that was adopted by to determine the dates for important Sikh events. It was designed to replace the Saka calendar and has been in use since 1998. Since 1998, amongst the critics, no-one has come forward with suggestions of specific changes, other than to suggest that the Sikhs should revert to the Vikrami calendar Features of the new calendar: • A tropical solar calendar • called Nanakshahi after Guru Nanak (founder of Sikhism) • Year one is the year of Guru Nanaks birth (1469 CE). As an example, 2010 CE is Nanakshahi 541. • Uses most of the mechanics of the Western calendar • Year length is same as Western calendar (365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 45 seconds) • Contains 5 months of 31 days followed by 7 months of 30 days • Leap year every 4 years in which the last month (Phagun) has an extra day The months in the Nanakshahi calendar are: No. Name Punjabi Days Julian Months 1 Chet ਚੇਤ 31 14 March – 13 April 2 Vaisakh ਵੈਸਾਖ 31 14 April – 14 May 3 Jeth ਜੇਠ 31 15 May – 14 June 4 Harh ਹਾੜ 31 15 June – 15 July 5 Sawan ਸਾਵਣ 31 16 July – 15 August 6 Bhadon ਭਾਦੋਂ 30 16 August – 14 September 7 Assu ਅੱਸੂ 30 15 September – 14 October 8 Katak ਕੱਤਕ 30 15 October – 13 November 9 Maghar ਮੱਘਰ 30 14 November – 13 December 10 Poh ਪੋਹ 30 14 December – 12 January 11 Magh ਮਾਘ 30 13 January – 11 February 12 Phagun ਫੱਗਣ 30/31 12 February – 13/14 March
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