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Zoroastrian Calendar

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The Resume

    (circa 450 BC- )
    Born in Iran
    Zoroastrian faith
    Tropical solar calendar
    360 days (12 months of 30 days)
    Originally reformed by Sassanid emperor Ardashir I

Why Zoroastrian Calendar might be annoying:

    Currently there are 3 different versions of the calendar being used.
    New Years falls in October.
    After the calendar was changed, many would repeat religious rituals/holidays on both the old date and the new date to make sure they were correct.
    Because it ignored leap days, it would lose a month every 120 years.
    In 1720, it was discovered the Iranian and Indian Zoroastrian calendars were out of sync.
    The Indians waited 25 years before deciding to use the Iranian version.
    In 1906, a group in Bombay tried to reform the calendar into 365 days and a leap day every 4th year. It was rejected.

Why Zoroastrian Calendar might not be annoying:

    Feast and celebrations are also repeated twice.
    Zoroastrian priests named eras after their prophets.
    In the middle ages, Zadspram estimated at Final Judgement the calendars would conflict by 4 years so a leap month was added every 120 years.

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