Calendar date

Today
Tuesday
Gregorian calendarMarch 11, 2025
Islamic calendar11 Ramadan, AH 1446
Hebrew calendar11 Adar, AM 5785
Coptic calendarParemhat 2, 1741 AM
Solar Hijri calendar21 Esfand, 1403 SH
Bengali calendarFalgun 26, 1431 BS
Julian calendar26 February 2025
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A calendar date is a reference to a particular day, represented within a calendar system, enabling a specific day to be unambiguously identified. Simple math can be performed between dates; commonly, the number of days between two dates may be calculated, e.g., "25 March 2025" is ten days after "15 March 2025". The date of a particular event depends on the time zone used to record it. For example, the air attack on Pearl Harbor that began at 7:48 a.m. local Hawaiian time (HST) on 7 December 1941 is recorded equally as having happened on 8 December at 3:18 a.m. Japan Standard Time (JST).

A particular day may be assigned a different nominal date according to the calendar used.[a] The de facto standard for recording dates worldwide is the Gregorian calendar, the world's most widely used civil calendar.[1] Many cultures use religious calendars such as the Gregorian (Western Christendom, AD), the Julian calendar (Eastern Christendom, AD), Hebrew calendar (Judaism, AM), the Hijri calendars (Islam, AH), or any other of the many calendars used around the world. Regnal calendars (that record a date in terms of years since the beginning of the monarch's reign) are also used in some places, for particular purposes.

In most calendar systems, the date consists of three parts: the (numbered) day of the month, the month, and the (numbered) year. There may also be additional parts, such as the day of the week. Years are counted from a particular starting point called the epoch, with era referring to the span of time since that epoch.[b] A date without the year may also be referred to as a date or calendar date (such as "11 March" rather than "11 March 2025"). As such, it is either shorthand for the current year, or else it defines the day of an annual event such as a birthday on 31 May or Christmas on 25 December.


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  1. ^ Dershowitz, D.; Reingold, E. M (2008). Calendrical Calculations (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 45. The calendar in use today in most of the world is the Gregorian or new-style calendar designed by a commission assembled by Pope Gregory XIII in the sixteenth century.

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