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A system of organizing time for social, religious, agricultural, commercial or administrative purposes. Names are given to lengths of time: typically days, weeks, months and years. We currently use the Gregorian Calendar in the West, but there are several others in widespread use, such as the Indian Calendar, the Islamic Calendar, the Hebrew Calendar, the Baha'i Calendar, and more. Calendars are usually based either on the perceived movement of the Moon (Lunar Calendar) or the Sun (Solar Calendar), or on a combination of the two (Luni-Solar Calendar). A key value is to keep the calendar in tune with the seasons. Other modern calendars adopt purely mathematical bases, independent of Sun and Moon. Calendars tend to adopt significant, usually religious dates as their starting point, such as the supposed birth of Jesus Christ, which determines the commencement of the current Gregorian Calendar. Unfortunately this is a disputed date, but the habit has stuck.

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